Yesterday Scoble blogged concerning the require for developers within the US. His blog gets far more readership then ours, so I won't begrudge him the fact that we have posted many times here on the Microsoft Jobs Blog about our have to have to hire talented developers. So just to reiterate - yes we are still hiring. The simple fact is that we are always on the search for great talent for the technical positions we have open at Microsoft. The reality is that it is tough to find good talent when trying to deal with issues such as relocation, job content and just simply finding the "right match". although, we've said it before,
Office 2007 Serial, I'll say it again. We currently have about 4,
Windows 7 Serial,300 open positions at Microsoft across all groups and disciplines. Roughly 1,500 of those are what we would consider industry product development positions (SDE, SDET,
Office 2010 Professional, STE, PM). Of these 1,
Office 2007,500 openings, 95% of them are at corporate headquarters in Redmond, WA. We offer an awesome relocation package and I would be happy to share with you my own relocation story. I made the trip all the way from Cleveland - a long way away from home these days! Gretchen and I are committed to getting through as many of the new folks applying as possible as well as looking into how to improve the application process. No system is perfect and we are also hampered by factors that are out of out control such as visa caps. If you are a regular reader,
Microsoft Office 2010 Key, you know that we have strong feelings in all of these areas. Though it isn't our main job, we hope our influence and the feedback you have already given us will go a long way. Bottom line - we have openings for software engineers that we are looking to fill in the US - 1,500 of them! So if you have already applied - thank you and keep the faith while we try to find a match for you within the company. If you haven't applied yet - what are you waiting for!? Zoe