4,400 recruits join Microsoft; hiring likely to keep up pace
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft 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 -- 1,481 in all -- as it did the year before. (Note: A less precise number was cited in the original version onf this article.)The pace is still about half Microsoft's annual growth rate at the peak of the tech boom. But it suggests continued stability in the company's business. It also illustrates Microsoft's continued ability to find and hire large numbers of employees that meet its famously rigorous employment standards.