4,400 recruits join Microsoft (but majority are outside USA)

[Newsjock]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/233598_msftpeople22.html?dpfrom=thead

By TODD BISHOP
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

Microsoft Corp. increased its pace of hiring in the past year, adding nearly 4,400 employees worldwide, and said it plans to continue expanding at about the same clip in the year ahead.

But more than half that employment growth occurred outside the United States. Microsoft added about the same number of people in the Puget Sound region -- approximately 1,400 in all -- as it did the year before.

The employment figures, disclosed yesterday for the company's recently completed fiscal year, underscore the increasingly international nature of Microsoft's operations, something that has raised concerns among some local employees.

... Earlier this week, Gates lamented that the company isn't able to hire as many people as it wants in the United States.

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[ConfuZed]

1. :)

[Robert Oak]

2. labor arbitrage

Gates wants unlimited worker visas and India wants to move VISAS
into the WTO, GATS mode 4, which makes people tradable commodities and corporations, not nations or the person themselves, control the status of the VISA.

It's about labor arbitrage and Microsoft is notorious for doing things like hiring perma temps so they don't have to pay benefits and so on.

[podnoi]

3. 1/2 of the US hires are shipped in from India/China/etc

Watched it happen at a fortune 500 Computer firm. Now they are hiring them outside the country. They work their for the company for 6 months. Then they are eligible to get unlimited Visa's. Many of these so called "US Jobs" in the tech sector are shipped in.

[Robert Oak]

4. that is an L-1 VISA

You might be interested in our site. We are cyberactivists on the entire topic of "race to the bottom" of the US middle class.

[lovuian]

5. My only hope is they are agents and sabotage his butt!!!

He has no idea what he is doing!!!

[high density]

6. Yo Gates, why not hire some entry level folks?

There are hundred of software development jobs listed on the Microsoft website and I keep hearing Gates bitching about how he can't hire people, but I don't see any jobs there listed for people with 0-2 years of experience. Hell if I knew I could get a job at Microsoft, I'd relocate over to Redmond at my own expense.

[nolabels]

7. I guess that LINUX really is looking better all the time

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Reviewer: Harold McFarland (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This is one of the best basic books on learning Linux and is written with the power user in mind. It takes a different approach to learning Linux than most other books. Other books typically focus on a section of Linux and go over it in detail. For example, it may cover the file system from selecting an appropriate one to how to mount disks, security, directories, links, and similar information until it has presented all the information on the file system. Instead this one divides the learning task up into basic stuff you need to know, intermediate knowledge, and more advanced levels. This is actually more consistent with the knowledge expected in the real world. While I would expect even a basic administrator to understand how to mount and unmount a drive I would not necessarily expect them to know how to interpret and change an fstab configuration file. To go over the whole file system from beginning to advanced levels leaving the student unknowledgeable in other basic tasks doesn't make as much senses. I would rather hire someone who knows the basics of the system including adding users and other administration than one who knows everything about one area. So, I really like the way it teaches basic knowledge in all areas, then intermediate knowledge in all areas, then advanced.

The focus is on the user or the person who has been assigned to administer an existing Linux system. If you need to add a peripheral device, setup or change printing, mount a CD for access by Windows based machines, or pretty much anything else that an administrator of a Linux file server needs to know its covered. There are better books for other type of servers like setting up a web server, MySQL, or other items. However, if you are completely new to Linux or a fairly novice Linux user and need to be able to administer a file server type system you will enjoy this book. Designed for the person who wants to really learn about Linux from the ground up "How Linux Works" is a recommended read.
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