Culture at Microsoft

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Be a friend to your manager and make sure your manager is a friend of their manager and so on.

Treat better than walmart I guess for sure! 😂kidding, have close friends there working since a decade in Azure and claims good work culture, compensation and worklife balance.

All the old timers just keep doing politics instead of actual work.

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.

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.

Depends entirely on your team/org. The company treats people well and most managers are great, but you can get unlucky and join a “growing” team to get cut entirely a quarter later. It’s pretty hard to get fired for performance as I’ve seen people float for over a year doing nothing somehow but we tend to cut whole teams pretty often.

Microsoft has great culture Satya is great but it depends on the team you join.