Posted on 07/05/2007 7:33:02 PM PDT by Babu
US software behemoth Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it would soon open an office in Canada, lamenting tough immigration rules in the United States that make it difficult to hire foreign staff.
"It is about recruiting the best and brightest, and right now, the majority are coming from overseas," Marc Seaman, a spokesman for the world's biggest software company, told The Globe and Mail newspaper.
"The United States has immigration quotas and some limitations for bringing in people from outside the country," he said. "That challenge is an opportunity for Canada, in the sense that this will bring the top software developers to Canada."
The development office, to be opened in Vancouver, a three-hour drive north from Microsoft's Redmond, Washington headquarters, will initially be staffed by some 300 recruits from around the world, the company said.
Eventually, it could grow to house as many as 1,000 employees.
Canada is currently the third-largest source of recruits for Microsoft outside the United States, after India and Japan.
Well....Americans, of course, "just don't want to do those jobs" you know...save for the ones that do...and, well, they're just not the "best and brightest."
To stay in business they built a soy processing plant in Walworth, Wisconsin.
Then they exported American soy sauce to Japan.
Microsoft wants to hire the people it wants to hire and employ them where they can "more directly" supervise them.
This frequently involves the use of marriage brokers because MS appears to be breeding its own next generation of advanced software engineers.
You can't do that if your "foreign" offices are all over the globe. Inasmuch as Canada's immigration laws are much more liberal than our own, MS has to settle for BC.
Won't be long, though, and the new hires will discover that Seattle is like the Sunny South compared to BC.
Bwahahahahahahaha!!!
MS is doing what it has to do. The entire workforce of this offshoot amounts to a few hundred people.
I believe they want to hire foreigners. They seem to be going out of their way to make room for them.
Understand that the software on the Mac is Linux? Or at least Unix.
And most of the top graduates in these schools in EE/CS are foreigners, particularly in MS/PhD programs.
Amen to that!
Maybe a little peed of at the attitude that someone is more sucessful than me, so I’m unhappy and they should share their money with me. Most buisnesses have started taking huge risks and hard work. I just hate the whining from the - I’ve worked fourty years loading semi’s with a hi-lo at $30 per hour, with benefits, three months of paid vacations and the world owes me everything mentality. No concept of starting a buisness, running a buisness, expanding a buisness.
I don’t care for the global market, especially with Americans standard of living. That’s really in jeopardy, we need a way to protect it, but its not slamming a company or the one who started it.
Most?
Numbers please!
A friend of ours (Canadian by birth, lived in US since age 5) was working at MSFT a few years ago....then he found himself training his replacements (East Indians).....and then...well, he wasn’t needed by Msft anymore.....
Dude, have you ever met anyone from one of these Universities (like EE/CS graduate programs), or been there? If you are asking for numbers, I have to just laugh at your ignorance.
We need to remove the onerous rules and regulations in the US....although, I don’t think Microsoft will find Canada very tax and rules/regulations friendly, either
Dude, I have to laugh at your rudeness. I graduated from college in 1976, so I was curious at to the numbers. Thanks for the help, jerkoff!!
Ok, please see the numbers posted above. You called the Microsoft guy a “Lying POS”, that was not rude?
I work as a part time contractor for MS now, and there’s about 6,000 open recs here in the Redmond area. And it’s a growing list.
Pay is really good - working full time I’d earn well into the 6 figure range.
It really is about finding top-notch candidates, in this case. MS’ pay is really good, and the new Indian, German, and Romanian hires in my group earn the same as the Americans.
Thanks, that is all I wanted to see. Pretty dismal, ain’t it? I withdraw the jerkoff comment. However, is there not a way for Americans to fill most of these spots?
What an offensive, disgusting comment.
I'll be rethinking purchasing anything that says Microsoft on it.
“You called the Microsoft guy a “Lying POS”, that was not rude?”
Possibly, but my daughter is an executive with Microsoft, and they are not the least bit altruistic.
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