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Re:Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs by smackfu on Thursday July 17, 2014 @09:48AM (#8047472)
Depends on the viewpoint: When you acquire a company, are the employees assets or liabilities?
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Re:Microsoft Looks to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs by hyperliner on Thursday July 17, 2014 @10:42AM (#8047787)
Who? The engineers? Clearly many of them would be liabilities as their product lost. Some visionaries are needed, some business people, some engineering leaders, some bright engineers, etc.

Unfortunately, some acquisitions are for talent, others for revenue, others for customers, others for technology, or a mix, and the talent here may be a mix bag.

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