Welcome to Microsoft’s JobsBlog! We’re glad you stopped by, whether you’ve been with us a long time or if this is your first time here.

A little history: JobsBlog is written by Microsoft’s Recruiting team. We published our first post in 2004, and we’re still at it. We take you behind the scenes to show you what it’s like to apply, interview and work here. Yes, this is a company-sponsored blog, but we want to show you life at the Empire as we see it. It’s in no one’s best interest to pitch a false reality. Really.

While you’re here, check out some of our more popular features including Microspotting (people and places we run across while exploring our offices), Bits & Bytes (quick tidbits from here and there) and Dear JobsBlog (recruiter advice). If you’re looking for something specific, search our archives in the top right-hand corner.

And if you’d like to ask us a question or just say hi, you can also find our team over at http://facebook.com/MicrosoftCareers and http://twitter.com/MicrosoftJobs. Or you can submit a question to our recruiters at http://microsoftjobsblog.com/dear-jobsblog.

We hope you enjoy!

Your JobsBlog editorial staff,
Gretchen Ledgard, Editor-in-Chief
Zoe Goldring, Managing Editor
Thomas Kohnstamm, Chief Microspotter
Ashley Hallenbeck, Recruiting Concierge

And the “Dear JobsBlog” recruiter writing staff:
Eugenia Sawa (Bing), Kenji Yamguchi (Windows/Windows Live), Jason Pankow (Xbox), Anne Cheng (International Recruiting), Matt Aberham (Services), Sandeep Sood (Server & Tools) and Chris Rosenau (Office)