Smart people, interesting work - Avis employé Software Development Engineer Microsoft
Voir tous les avis (54717)Avantages
They do a little bit of everything. If you want to do it, you can probably do it at Microsoft.
Inconvénients
The culture is frustrating, and it feels like the executive level decisions are completely detached from the wishes of the employees at times.
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Voir tous les avis (54717)- 5,0Post Doctoral ResearcherEmployé actuelRedmond, WA
Avantages
work life balance is great.
Inconvénients
salary is relatively low in the industry.
- 4,0Employé anonymeEmployé actuel, plus de 10 ansRedmond, WA
Avantages
1. If you love tech, this is a great place. No doubt you'll talk tech (mostly the MSFT stack) from enterprise to consumer - from PCs to phones to Xboxes - from datacenter to desktop. 2. What were GREAT benefits are now VERY GOOD (took a small step down) but still probably better than you'll find at 99% of large corporations. If you've got family - the value of the benefits is even higher. 401k match is nice. 3. Even with it's struggles MSFT is still a cash printing machine. This means if you can keep your nose clean and do reasonable work, you can have a stable job, pay your bills, feed your family, and not worry (too much) about layoffs. The stock you own likely won't tank, but probably won't go up much either. You'll get a bonus each year and some stock. It's a decent life if you aren't looking to light the world on fire.
Inconvénients
Brand on Your Resume: After many years of losing market share and struggling to be at the front end of innovation and the fact that there's 90,000 employees, don't think MSFT is necessarily going to be attractive on your resume to more agile and smaller companies. Managing Your Career: Make you say this out loud so it registers - 90,000 employees work there. Double that for vendors. It is VERY hard to "stand out" and move up in the company. Don't expect your manager to be much of an advocate or enabler to help you meet your career goals - they are basically trying to survive the stack rank every year too. Not familiar with the stack rank? Check out the 2012 Vanity Fair article called "Microsoft's Lost Decade".
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