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Great people, shame about the management

QE Lead
Former Employee
Worked at Microsoft for less than 1 year
March 7, 2011
Mountain View, California
4.0
Doesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Great benefits across the board.

Great people at the delivery level.

Lots of training and learning opportunities.

Multiple product lines give a variety of opportunities.

Cons

Judged on what you didn't do rather than what you did do.

Promote technical people to management positions, with few or no people skills.

Very dev-driven organization.

Advice to Management

Hire managers that understand how to get the most from people.

Not everyone has to be a dev; you need different people with different skill sets for non-dev positions.

Don't review people based on the few things they don't accomplish; look at all the things they do accomplish.

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