Microsoft's Best and Brightest Defecting
18th Sep 2005, 16:29 GMT
http://search-engines-web.com/ writes "Once the dream workplace of tech's highest achievers, it is suffering key defections to Google and elsewhere. What's behind the losses?http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_39 /b3952001.htmNow much of the sharpest criticism comes from within. Dozens of current and former employees are criticizing -- in BusinessWeek interviews, court testimony, and personal blogs -- the way the company operates internally. This spring two researchers sent Chairman William H. Gates III a memo in which they wrote: "Everyone sees a crisis is imminent" and suggested "Ten Crazy Ideas to Shake Up Microsoft." Many workers, like Lee, are in effect saying: "I'm outta here." More than 100 former Microsofties now work for Google, and dozens of others have scattered elsewhere"
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