Kuytu

4.9 million people speak Finnish as their first language. Does not sound very threatened to me.

Some very simplified answers:

- Everyone would hire more seniors if possible. Juniors are sometimes seen as expensive and hiring only juniors does not scale.

- Education systems do not produce senior people. Also there are other sectors than tech too. I don't know the current situation, but it used to be that places for IT education were never filled completely. There just isn't enough people.

- I don't remember this being reported as significant

- I believe there is difficulties with taxation etc. if you hire people living in different country.

I'd suggest going with node.js. Lot of libraries, large community. Fast and easy to get started You are going to have to learn javascript on the frontend anyway, might as well use it in the backend.

It is hard to imagine anything is too late for a company that made over 20 billion profit last year. Even if Windows has done worse aren't Office sales increasing on OS X for example. Microsoft is a company that sells Office first and foremost.

Does anyone have an idea how they are spending $20 000 on electricity?