Microsoft

Amazing health care and bonuses.

Employees were worked to death, and management expected AI to allow them to work more even though they had not integrated it into anything. Most of what the team did was waiting on customers to get them data.

The company charged more for spouse healthcare.

They took away almost all extra perks like discount flights and rental cars.

Management gaslit everyone about layoffs constantly, and now they have started to do the same about the return to office.

The issue was not with immediate management. It was upper management that would never tell anyone anything and kept squeezing for the shareholders.

Some advice for upper management:

• Listen to your people.
• You have had so many bad ideas in the past, and that is visible with how many people are moving from Windows to Linux.
• This should be a wake-up call to you.

You are going down the same path now with Azure, pushing the same ideology that you pushed with Windows. It is just a matter of time before people jump from Azure.