The center in Bucharest, inaugurated in the presence of the company’s founder Bill Gates in 2007, currently employs 220 people and has job openings available.
Most of the jobs available with Microsoft’s center in Romania require English and German language skills, as well as English and Dutch, Danish and French skills.
“We’ve kept on growing since 2006, by hiring experts and young graduates from the market,” Adina Bigas said.
Microsoft has several positions available at its technical support center opened in Bucharest in 2006 and inaugurated in 2007. It will continue to recruit from among students, as well, using an internship program organized twice this year, Adina Bigas said.
The officials of the company did not provide details about the salaries paid at GTSC, but market data show that language skills are a factor in the pay one gets. Salaries for those who speak only English start at EUR400, while those who speak a Nordic language besides English may earn EUR1,000.
The IT industry is the only one to have registered growth in the number of employees over the last few years, and is currently employing 28,400 people, 30% more than at the end of 2008. Salaries rose by 54% since the onset of the crisis to an average of EUR870 in net amount, 2.5 times higher than the average of all sectors of the economy, National Statistics Institute data show.
Other global IT&C companies to have opened support centers in Romania include Alcatel Lucent, Ericsson, HP, Huawei, IBM and Oracle.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)