Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:12:06 11/16/01
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On November 16, 2001 at 19:59:00, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >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. I just checked. It's 43000.
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