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Microsoft carried out yet another round of layoffs recently and the move impacted over 200 employees in the US..
Ever since the news of layoffs got out, LinkedIn has been full of posts from impacted people, sharing their experience...
One such ex-Microsoft employee took to the job-search platform and shared how she lost her job after completing a decade at the company..
Talking about her layoff and how the last ten years have been a wonderful ride, the woman wrote, I have been impacted by the recent round of layoffs at Microsoft, but what a wonderful ride the last ten years have been..
As per a GeekWire report, 276 people based out of Washington were impacted by Microsoft's recent round of layoffs...
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