Terrible experience at Microsoft, what is going on

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BHER68

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Oct 28, 2021 34 Comments

Recently jointed Microsoft and I’m absolutely stunned at how bad it is.

TC: 210k

For reference, I’m in the Bing WebXT org as a remote engineer. I guess if you’re reading this don’t join please.

I had to explicitly tell them to not send me a desktop (where the fuck am I going to put a desktop). They sent me a Lenovo ultrabook. Shit is garbage. I’ve tried asking for a slightly more powerful laptop that doesn’t choke on visual studio but they insist that laptops are backed up for 4+ months and it won’t happen and that the only way to develop is using a desktop. This is a 2 trillion dollar company mind you

No one talked to me for 3 days unless I reached out. No process around making or managing tickets. Giant 50gb monorepo and everyone has their own folder. It’s a fucking mess. Everything is deployed on prem. Everyone is stuck coding in ASP.NET (not core) and because of the terrible naming scheme you can’t google (or Bing) anything asp.net related because it only gives you results for core.

Since we deploy to windows servers you can’t pull in dependencies like on Linux. It’s either installed on the build server or you’re stuck trying to deal with nuget? No idea. Deployments don’t work. People are straight up hand deploying and using port forwarding like we’re setting up halo in high school.

Everything is in mandarin. There’s something called corpnet and the vpn doesn’t connect to it so I have no access to anything. Everything you create is by default public internet facing, so everything needs layers of authentication built in (hint everyone implements it wrong). Microsoft Teams is legit garbage and channels don’t work for chatting becsuse every chat starts a new thread. Nothing is documented, there’s no product vision and I’m trying to get the fuck out of here


I have so much more but I’ll save it for my therapist #microsoft #Bing #webxt

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  • Amazon / Eng
    slubot1

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    How is the WLB?
    Oct 28, 2021 4
    • Amazon / Eng
      slubot1

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      Ok OP. I will tell you one secret, not everyone in the industry is doing sexy work. I will say at most 10% get any groundbreaking work while the rest are supporting stuff. And 9% out of those 10% are overworked cause of product deadlines and politics. Out of those 10%, only 1% have amazing work with amazing WLB. Ofcourse people supporting stuff are also overworked, e.g. AWS engineers.

      Enjoy life, play games, socialize and make friends, learn open source technologies on your own and once you hit the cliff in your TC then LC and switch.

      Your next interview will anyways be more about LC and very less about your actual experience. Probably one round in he loop where you can tell fake elaborate stories.

      So why fuss about good work?
      Oct 28, 2021
    • Capital One
      BHER68

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      I’m down for boring tech, and non sexy work. This is not that. This is expending a ton of energy every day to slog through broken systems and terrible practices that only exist because everyone there has worked at this org for a minimum of 15 years and is so used to how broken things are that they don’t want to change it
      Oct 29, 2021
  • What's wrong with a desktop though?
    Oct 28, 2021 2
    • Hologic
      kryptou

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      kryptou
      Boomer alert. How do you plan to work when you’re not physically present at your home where you generally work
      Oct 28, 2021
    • Capital One
      BHER68

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      Sometimes I like to work from places other than the one place I setup my desktop. I literally don’t know a single person/company other than MSFT who uses a desktop for their job especially during covid. I don’t even have room for another desktop in my apartment. Anything slow for a laptop should get sent to a remote build server
      Oct 28, 2021
  • You need to have a machine in the office and then remote to that machine for corpnet🤣🤣
    Oct 28, 2021 1
  • Hologic
    kryptou

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    kryptou
    And my company sent me 2 MacBook Pro and 1 MB Air. I told them they accidentally sent 3 computers but nobody cares 😂
    Oct 28, 2021 4
  • Looks like Azure is the only place to be in MSFT if you wanna work on cool tech
    Oct 28, 2021 1