Mac Mojo: The Office for Mac Team Blog

The Mac BU at Microsoft is growing - we’re launching our biggest hiring initiative since the inception of MacBU eleven years ago. We are hard at work planning for products beyond Office 2008, and we are growing our team to help turn our vision into reality.

We offer the feel of a small company with a strong team culture of innovation, creativity, and creating great user experiences. We combine the power of Office with the latest Mac technologies to create world class products - we develop exclusively for Macs, and we love 'em.

At the risk of leaving out/forgetting plenty of other good reasons, here are my top ten reasons to join MacBU:

10. We are the brightest, coolest, and most interesting business unit at Microsoft – if we do say so ourselves

9. We’re passionate about our products, the platform, our customers, and our kick-butt industrial strength margarita machine
8. High energy, passionate, fun team – we love what we do!
7. Free caffeine, tastily packaged in soda cans and in our fiendishly addictive coffee machines. Oh, and free milk and juice, too
6. Microsoft offers industry-leading benefits all around, but our health care benefit is amazing
5. Small team, big challenges: every member of our team makes a huge impact on our business
4. One of the largest dedicated Mac software development organizations outside of Apple
3. We work for Microsoft and we are proud of it!
2. Our software is used by millions of people around the world
1. Three words: Mac. Office. Microsoft. ‘Nuff said.

We offer an outstanding opportunity to build great software experiences for Mac customers, and to have a significant impact on the way millions of Mac users work around the world. Also, Microsoft has a lot to offer: career stability, industry-leading benefits, excellent opportunities for career growth, flexible hours, positive work/life balance, and support for family life.

We’re hiring for multiple roles (Program Managers, Developers, Testers, User Experience, and Marketing) in Redmond and Silicon Valley. Send your resume to macjobs@microsoft.com

To find out about specific MacBU job openings please visit the Microsoft Career site and search for MacBU. Check back often as more jobs will be posted in coming months

To learn more about working at Microsoft please visit the Microsoft Career site http://www.microsoft.com/careers/

For a candid inside view of what it’s like to be a techie at Microsoft please visit http://www.viewmyworld.com/

Posted by: Craig Eisler in MacBU

11 Comments

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[Chris]

Chris

Jun 24, 2008

9:09pm

Internship Opportunities

Does MacBU offers internship opportunities to students? If yes, what are the minimum qualifications required for students?

Thanks

[Carmen]

Carmen

Jun 24, 2008

9:09pm

Re: We're hiring!

So, lets say I met one of the team members at the WWDC student career fair, and that person told me to send my resume via email. Should I still apply through the career website?

Mac Mojo Response: It can't hurt to send your resume again to the official recruiting address: macjobs@microsoft.com

[Wills, Carroll]

Carroll Wills

Jun 24, 2008

9:09pm

Good news!

I've been using Mac Office long enough to remember when the MacBU used to tout itself as *the* largest Mac developer outside of Apple, rather than "one of the largest".

This type of re-commitment to the platform is very much appreciated by this Mac user.

I've always been a big fan of Mac Office 2001, X and 2004. 2008 has been disappointing because of the missing features (VBA, complete Exchange support, One Note) and compatibility issues. But at its best, the Mac BU is what we all hope for -- a Mac developer that cares about the platform and is willing to compete for our business.

Thanks for making this commitment. I'm looking forward to the fruits of the expansion.

[Alan]

Alan

Jun 24, 2008

9:09pm

VSTO, OpenCL, and iPhone Office

Well I take this as a good sign, that Microsoft is reaffirming it's commitment to the Mac platform.

I just wanted to say it would be interesting to see if this hiring spree will lead toward an iPhone Office. Personally, I would find this very useful, being able to make quick edits to documents and presentations on the go without dragging around a laptop. I can see how it'll be difficult selecting what features to support, but I think the touch screen interface could lead to some interesting new ways to approach document navigation and creation.

With the recent announcement that VBA is returning to the next Office version, I was wondering if someone could clarify what the relationship between VBA, VSTO, and VSTA is? If VSTO is supposed to be the successor or even a complement, wouldn't it make sense to devote resources to the newer standard rather than going back to VBA, when the last version already tried to wean users off of it? It be great if both VBA and VSTO were both supported, but if it's an either or scenario, I'd be interested to no the differences and rationale behind it.

Also, with features like Grand Central and OpenCL coming to Snow Leopard, I hope they are incorporated as needed into the next Office while you are rewriting things in Cocoa. It might help with the performance problems that seem to crop up in Office.

[User, MacOffice]

MacOffice User

Jun 25, 2008

11:14am

Globalization/Localization jobs?

Do you have any openings in the Localization area ? I know MS-Mac products are sold in many countries. Thank you

[Adrian]

Adrian

Jun 25, 2008

11:14am

Great!

Good to hear, Mac Business Unit is expanding! Need to pick up the pace in this quickly changing tech world!!!!

[me]

Jul 02, 2008

1:34pm

Re: We're hiring!

Hire an Exchange expert.

[Remember me, the Enterprise Mac User???]

the Enterprise Mac User??? Remember me

Jul 02, 2008

1:41pm

Re: We're hiring!

What about recruiting people who want/believe in interoperability between Mac and PC Office suites? I am so sick of the snobbery between the Mac and Windows Office developers where one develops one and one does the other. I hate the Mac and the Mac Office 2004 because its not even close to Office 2003. Macs are so simplistic, its not even funny. I am now working on my Windows machine to do my office work, because that is a standard and common platform that I can do more. That's all I have to say.

[Nemhauser, Russ]

Russ Nemhauser

Jul 02, 2008

2:34pm

C++? Wha?

I don't understand why the job descriptions on the link you gave all say "primarily C++". Why aren't you using Objective-C? Are you guys developing Cocoa apps or not?

Nadyne Richmond

Jul 02, 2008

2:44pm

Re: We're hiring!

@Russ - As a mature suite of applications, we've got millions of lines of C++ code. We need people who can work with all of that existing code. Obj-C is definitely something we like seeing on resumés, of course!

@Chris - Yes, we do offer summer internships. It's too late for internships this summer, but we'll be starting to look at candidates for next summer after the fall semester kicks off. You can learn more about internships at Microsoft on the following site:
http://www.microsoft.com/college/ip_overview.mspx
Also, check your university's recruiting fairs to see if there will be Microsoft representatives there, so that you can ask more about internships in person.

[MSilva]

MSilva

Jul 08, 2008

12:56pm

Office and Digital Signatures

MacBU have digital signatures in your roadmap for Mac Office ?

I think this is a great feature for implementation in Mac Office for Mac OS X.
See, digitally signing and digital certificates
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/HA100997681033.aspx#4

This is each more important for the users of the most varied countries:
N National ID Cards

Finnish ID Card FINEID
Swedish Posten eID
Estonian ID Card EstEID
Italian Infocamere
Italian Postecert
Belgian eID
Spanish Ceres
German ID Cards, eHBA, eGK
Taiwan
Austrian Bürgerkarte, e-card
Australian national ID card
United States PIV card applet
Turkish EID Card
See:
http://eid.belgium.be/fr/binaries/eID-FR-MSOffice_tcm146-9782.pdf

The Mac users needs this for Mac !!

Best Regards

Manuel Silva
Portugal