Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops phone production

Re:Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops ph... by rasjani on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:07PM (#11770813)

I was also in Ruoholahti at the time and while those where dreadful times, it wasn't as bad (Atleast for me) as you picture it. Yeah, MeeGo (well, it was Harmattan, there was nothing MeeGo except binary compatibility and using the name to please Intel). Formatting Linux laptops was more of a joke imho. And guys who started Jolla where really not high execs in the program - really good tech guys but not execs :)

But yeah, I got myself a transfer inside Nokia after harmattan program was finished (still working on Linux stuff). Was away for few years and went back few months before Microsoft bought us, laid us off and our dept. spun off. During those times I didn't see any change on how things where handled from old Nokia days. So anyone who says that they didn't see this final layoff round coming is blind AF.

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Re:Microsoft is cutting 1,000 jobs in Finland as it stops ph... by hellothere789 on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @01:38PM (#11771573)

Remember when they kicked out Ari Jaaksi (for one, I thought he was a GREAT leader).

Then they brought in the son of the former Finnish president (Ahtisaari) and the guy stood in front of the entire program telling us how awesome he was and he was going to reshape the way people use mobile phones.

Good times.

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