Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 16:59:00 11/16/01
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On November 16, 2001 at 18:15:32, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. I'm almost certain there are slightly less than 50K people working for MS in any way, including internationally. -Tom
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