Microsoft Taken To Task On Hiring Practices

Because I have so many buzz words on my resume, I get calls for all kinds of stuff. A couple times I've been approached to help work Microsoft help desks (no thanks, having enough problems keeping the Microsoft stuff I have running.)
According to the article,

"The issue has come to the fore in part because of comments made this month by internal Microsoft recruiter Gretchen Ledgard, who blasted some of her company's managers as "entitled, spoiled whiners" who assume that everyone wants to work for Microsoft."

Ugh. Not exactly the kind of press you want your recruiters generating for you, huh?
Another time I was contacted, it was to help install Oracle financials at Microsoft (on Oracle platforms, no less!) The recruiter was quite understandably concerned that I keep this hush-hush. You won't tell anyone, will you?
I've also talked with them about architecture jobs, and a friend of mine was helping them design their next version of .NET. But Microsoft is a huge company, with something like 60,000 employees. You could meet one employee a day at Microsoft and be finished meeting people about 160 years later. An organization that size is just too much to fit into the mind all at one time, if you ask me.
Microsoft also gets heat for its extensive interviewing process, which can take over 9 interviews and a couple trips to Redmond. I'm okay with tough interviews -- in fact I like them that way -- but Microsoft needs to act on these candidates right away. Assuming that everyone wants to work for Microsoft and that people are waiting around for them to make up their mind is no way to run a railroad.