Big company, big momentum, set in the old ways
Big company, big momentum, set in the old ways
- Numerous opportunities to work on a variety of projects, technologies, and ideas.
- Great C-suite leadership, especially Satya Nadella and Phil Spencer.
- Bright minds and friendly people.
- Azure is a great product.
- Excellent benefits.
- Bureaucratic and extremely slow. You will face resistance trying to work across team boundaries.
- Middle management culture focused primarily on how they are perceived by their higher ups.
- Customer obsession is talked about a lot, but not actually practiced. Windows 10 and 11 are prime examples.
- These cultural problems are deeply rooted, and middle management stubbornly holds on to their "old ways."
- Embrace the discomfort of owning failures instead of ignoring them, especially when talking to your higher-ups.
- Actually listen to customers instead of trying to force things on them.
- Resist the false comfort of bureaucracy.
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