Microsoft is declining. I’m planning to leave
Microsoft is declining. I’m planning to leave
- Great teammates
- Get to work on some cool projects
- Benefits
- Terrible work-life balance, especially now that most hardware teams have counterparts in Taiwan. Have fun with meetings after 5 PM multiple days a week.
- Incompetent management who bring in more incompetent management.
- Management has no clue how to properly deliver a hardware program.
- Too much micromanagement that eats away at time engineers should be spending on technical work.
- Low pay for a big tech company.
- Get out of the way! You haven’t done any real technical work in years, so let your engineers do their job.
- Stop hiring MBAs and your buddies. Start hiring proven technical leaders.
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