Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:15:32 11/16/01
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On November 16, 2001 at 18:07:19, Roy Eassa wrote: >On November 16, 2001 at 15:28:53, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>Microsoft is basically the size of a large city. It was around 50,000 employees >>when I left. They have sites all over the place. Even in Redmond and Bellevue, >>the buildings are all over town. They have a main campus, but also several >>branches nearby, and additional branches in other places. I worked in Issaquah >>for a while (which was nice). One big site is quite a ways north (where they >>used to do manufacturing -- not sure what they do there now). >> >>Imagine a city with 50K people in it. Will you know everything that goes on? > > >When did you leave? I could've sworn they passed the 100,000-employee mark some >time back. About 4 years ago. I suspect your figures are international. Of course, I really don't know how big MS is now. When I started there (in 1989) there were about 8000 employees total. >BTW, Microsoft employees can reportedly buy any number of copies of WinXP Home >for $15 per copy and WinXP Pro for $30 per copy. I was an a- and a v- (temp & vendor) so you had to buy at certain opportunities. It was just the media cost for MS employees.
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