👆 I feel I’ve a good feature velocity. I’m being honest in providing the timelines and I complete it on time, some team members provide 2-3 sprints as timelines of the thing that could be finished in a week. So the PMs and my manager assign me to work on critical products. But this doesn’t reflec...Read more
Microsoft has become a sad place for me. I have no motivation for work. And the reason is promotion and rewards. Microsoft really wants a developer to limit innovations into the scope of fhl and hackathons. Any innovation done for product eventually means equal to any other task, there is no appreci...Read more
I work in Azure, have a good WLB and am tech leading a small team. I work fully remotely MCOL. Recently promoted Senior SWE at MSFT YOE: 5.5 Current TC: 310K Interviewed to see if I can crack senior interviews externally and what other opportunities may exist. I got two good offers (and some othe...Read more
I’m currently a tech-lead (senior engineer) for a small team of engineers at MSFT. Been tech leading for less than a year. My current charter already involves sprint planning, backlog refinement, participating/leading designs, etc apart from direct code contributions. I have also had extensive ment...Read more
Hey Blind, Kind of in a tough spot in my career and could use some advice. I started as a new grad ~2 years ago still at level 59, hired from the internship where I did well. My experience at Microsoft has not been great. My team has had a lot of attrition which had led to reorgs (I've had 4 manag...Read more
The reality of Big Tech's 'fake work' problem https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-industry-fake-work-problem-bad-managers-bosses-layoffs-jobs-2023-7?_gl=1*j2hb2g*_ga*MTU0MTI4MjQ0Ny4xNjcxNDgzMTg0*_ga_E21CV80ZCZ*MTY4OTA1MzQwMy41NTAuMS4xNjg5MDUzNDU1LjguMC4w What is your reaction? Here are some choi...Read more