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www.mgs.jobs


(March 20, 2006)  (Cheesman spotted the site) Point your browser to www.mgs.jobs. It's an employment site for Microsoft Game Studios. It's a great (and funny) game to play. It's a high end use of the .jobs domain name. It's an escalation in the already intense talent wars in the game industry. It's faster than a speeding bullet.

The site itself, executed in Macromedia's Flash (imagine that, Microsoft using someone else's tools) is a marvel of simplicity and entertainment. It's a marvel of Recruitment Advertising and includes a deliciously fun game involving chairs and officemates. From an advertising and PR perspective, Microsoft is really tearing things up.

But, all is not well in Redmond. The Recruiting and attrition problem is becoming a national news story. CNN's coverage (from the past week) looks like this:

Microsoft's labor troubles
On top of a stagnant stock and a host of new competition, the software giant is said to be struggling to attract the best young talent.

Microsoft's all grown up.

Now, along with the middle-age woes of a stagnant stock and a host of new competition, the world's biggest computer software maker apparently can add "attracting young blood" to its list.

Microsoft's top excecs may be excited to work at the company, but some rank and file employees are not, a report says.

Microsoft   employees are growing more and more disillusioned with stagnating salaries and an increasingly contentious review system that they say is unfair, according to a recent report in WashTech News. That's led to more defections by senior engineers and growing dissatisfaction among rank-and-file workers, the report said. (CNN)

The Wash-Tech report is an eye-opener. It starts like this:

Defections by high-level engineers have stung Microsoft in recent months, prompting questions about a rush of creative minds for the door. One explanation is the Redmond software giant has grown too big and cumbersome to keep its top engineers happy and productive.

But the star engineers who are jumping to younger technology companies, such as Google and Yahoo, aren't the only employees who are disgruntled with day-to-day operations.

Internal Microsoft documents obtained by WashTech News show that Microsoft salaries have been stagnant or nudged only slightly higher over the past two years. Comments from current and former employees about the company's compensation and performance review system suggest a growing level of frustration among rank-and-file workers.

Wash-Tech, to be fair, is a communications front for the union trying to organize digital workers in the state. But, the facts are the facts. Much of Microsoft's recent visibility in Recruiting circles seems to be a political style spin offensive aimed at new Recruiting products (to compete with Salesforce.com) and the market of potential employees who are not aware of the company's circumstances.

We're reminded of the old recruiting joke. On the second visit to hell, when the new recruit asks about the difference between his initial experience and the reality of hell, the devil says, "On that first visit, we were recruiting you."

 John Sumser

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