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Great devs, but too many PMs are hurting the company

Senior Software Development Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Microsoft for 9 years
November 10, 2012
Hyderābād, Telangana
3.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Breadth of technologies you can work on, good resources, good salaries and benefits, good development centers in many cities, smart peers.

Cons

Too much internal fighting, more competition with folks inside rather than outside. Too PM focused, weak leadership promoting a mediocre culture. Too many non-code writing folks creating useless processes to prove their worth, in turn slowing down the company.

Advice to Management

Don't promote a false sense of success. Promote leaders only on producing actual business results, reduce the number of PMs, and make the company more dev-centric, which is how Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other companies operate.

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