What is it about Microsoft that makes people want to work there?
All the Nutella you can eat .
Where’s the Nutella?! I thought coconut water was the latest new stuff and it’s like 2 yes ago they start putting in every building
Satya Nutella
Easy to get into
1. Global brand. It looks awesome on your resume. 2. Impact. You will contribute to most used softwares such as Office. Your contribution will help connect people togetherl through PowerPoint animation; exchange emails so clients can close deal; help students to complete their assignments so they can earn a degree and get a job in the future. Every line will touch people’s life. Can you imagine when Office doesn’t exist and everyone is forced to use LibreOffice? Can you imagine 365, OneDrive and OneNote don’t exist? Where are people going to find free 1TB drive to store their cat pictures and sex videos? Our world can’t exist if it weren’t for Access, that cute little Clipboard Hint animation thing in Office 97 we wouldn’t be where we are today. I wouldn’t know how to bold words . Without the intelligent spellchecker, people will literally die for misspelling words. Without Excel how are we going to calculate costs and rank people? 3. Entering Cloud. We have a Cloud Three Kingdoms. AWA, Azure and GCP. Your contribution to Azure will ensure Jeff Bezos doesn’t make all the money, force AWS to reduce pricing so corporations and small startups can save money and help increase wages. Moreover, a successful Cloud means no more MSSQL, Active Directory or Exchange running off of expensive colo data center. Save carbon emission! 4. Skipping 4 because MSFT is awesome. 5. Developers, Developers, Developers. You can’t bet on a company who strategically treat developers as customers. 6. Hit Refresh. Ever tried F5? It never breaks. 7. MSFT Research is top-notched. No stupid politics like Google kids fighting over who gets to win the first Alpha Go game, MV people jealous of the Brit DeepMind bastards. MSFT research is all about Research, Research, Research. 8. Redmond. Who can reject the weather there? 9. MSFT only hires the best. Unlike facebook’s notorious PIP - when you can get kicked out during bootcamp - MSFT has a policy of firing the weakest annually. You don’t have to worry about PIP for a whole year and you don’t have to worry about your performance review. As long as you have the skill to be lucky, you stay! Those that do stay, they are truly the best. They have survived so long they can conquer any tasks thrown at them. No wonder why we still use Office and Windows 10 (or XP for the best). 10. Last but not the least, LinkedIn is an inflated club where you can be a senior engineer with just three years of experience; staff with just five years of experience. The benefits are countless. Education $$ and Lydia perk; wellness perk, two weeks off during Christmas. What? Wow! 11. Oh this must go on the list. Unlike facebook, MSFT has always and will continue to be engaged with the young generation via Xbox 360. You will be breeding and helping kids to grow in a safe environment. You can help them navigate the ugliness of real world in a simulation and learn to make friends and enemies. This is why you should join MSFT. By the way, I am single.
They pay very well for the commitment required. There are an enormous number of opportunities to work on different products, technologies and market segments, in money making areas. They dont make the vast majority of their money through advertising. There are lots of challenging problems to solve with great people.
Because devs couldnt get into FB/G/Netflix.
It's better than average comp, benefits, project selection, impact potential, coworker iq. Good training resources are available. Some of us (especially FANG and recent college grads) are so sheltered as developers. There are so many garbage places to spend your working life. If you need max(TC) or max(WLB) or max(vacation) or max(stock potential) then MS isn't the best place, but it's not bad on any specific dimension either.
Microsoft is only bad in comparison to a tiny number of companies (G, FB, Netflix, a few unicorns).
Bro you already said you hate your team and desperately want time to study. Why are you still whining on Blind and not studying?
I got into 3 FANGs with higher TCs (Amazon, FB, Google). Microsoft is still not bad in comparison I'd say...
Work life balance
All life no work?
Even better lol