Culture at Microsoft

Jul 8, 2019 21 Comments

How does Microsoft treat their employees??

What about the layoffs in Azure, are they frequent? They bad?? What teams to avoid in azure?

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  • Facebook
    whatnext?

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    Microsoft
    whatnext?
    Be a friend to your manager and make sure your manager is a friend of their manager and so on.
    Jul 8, 2019 0
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    • There are no blanket 20% PIP’s. You can be an average performer and be employed for 25 years. The only difference is hitting target on your rewards. Some years for average performers could be lower but generally at 100% of target.

      Those that claim it is a rank and yank system have no idea. Those days are long gone.
      Jul 8, 2019
    • Google
      🦄🏴‍☠️

      Go to company page Google

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      Amazon person spreading disinformation, lol
      Jul 9, 2019
  • Adobe
    DaLobstah

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    DaLobstah
    As a former Softie, fantastic benefits and if you’re at HQ, beautiful campus in a nice suburb of Seattle.

    Only drawback is be prepared to ass-kiss your manager. A lot of non-technical smooth talkers can do very well in some departments; wasn’t my cup of tea, especially seeing a brilliant female coworker continually perform very well (and run circles around people with her technical expertise), and see her denied promotions and invites to conferences while less-competent male colleagues got promoted and sent to conferences all because they ate lunch and hung out with the manager outside of work.
    Jul 9, 2019 0
  • Overall, pretty well. Microsoft has good benefits. They have potential to give competitive offers if you have competing offers, but generally they underpay long term employees compared to other companies. But it's very hard to be fired for performance reasons.

    Like the FB guy said, you will need to have a good relationship with your manager and skip, as these people can make or break your career.

    Never heard of any layoffs in Azure, personally. Avoid Azure Global, Azure Compute, and Azure Cosine. I would also be weary of Azure networking. I've heard good things about Azure Storage.
    Jul 9, 2019 7
  • Google / Eng
    pumaupma

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    pumaupma
    All the old timers just keep doing politics instead of actual work.
    Jul 9, 2019 1