Microsoft Recruiting
From ArkWiki
This is an actual conversation between an Ark Linux developer and a Microsoft recruiter. The name of the recruiter has been changed because the recruiter can't be blamed for the crimes of his/her company - and other than having a poor choice of employers, this person hasn't done anything wrong and shouldn't lose his/her job for giving us a perfect chance to ridicule M$.
Dear Bernhard, My name is ***************** and I am a Core Technical Recruiter for Microsoft in the EMEA region. I am based in Budapest but deal with international projects for Microsoft. I hope you don't mind my contacting you. We are currently looking to fill a Program Manager position as well as a Lead Software Development Engineer position for our Development Centre in Dublin/Ireland. I was wondering if possibly you could recommend somebody for this position or might even be interested in this position yourself. You can find a brief description of the Program Manager's career path here: http://members.microsoft.com/careers/careerpath/technical/programmanagement.mspx Please let me know if you would like to talk further about this opportunity. I hope you don't mind but if I don't hear from you in a couple of days I’ll drop you a call. Looking forward to hearing from you! Kind regards, **************** EMEA Core Technical Recruiter Microsoft Corporation v-********@microsoft.com Fax: +36 1 *** **** Skype: *******************
Reply:
Dear ********, Thanks for contacting me. I am curious about a couple of things - what version of Linux are your products built around? Since you're contacting an Ark Linux core team member, can I assume you're using Ark Linux for one of your projects? On a side note, the link with the detailed job description does not open in my browser of choice (http://www.konqueror.org/) because of non-standard html usage, but I've been able to see it in Firefox. You may want to fix this. I'm attaching my current CV in OpenOffice format for your reference. Regards, ****
