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I went to school in Iowa, so I recognize that the midwest is a great place, but the reality is that for those people at Microsoft in Redmond about to get laid o

I went to school in Iowa, so I recognize that the midwest is a great place, but the reality is that for those people at Microsoft in Redmond about to get laid off, they will just go over to Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. In Des Moines or Cedar Rapids if you are good you'll be able to name your gig, but there are simply fewer gigs to go around and the compensation can't compete.

e15ctr0n 12y ago
Most of the job cuts in Microsoft will come from its Nokia unit in Finland[1] where, to use your own words, there are fewer gigs to go around. Compounding the problems is that Finland is in the middle of a long recession and unemployment is about 10.7 percent[2]. [1] http://online.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-layoffs-hit-nokias-finland-1405624498 http://online.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-layoffs-hit-nokias-... [2] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-17/microsoft-job-cuts-provoke-finnish-demands-as-recession-drags-on.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-17/microsoft-job-cuts-...