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Great Infrastructure and People

Senior Software Development Engineer In Test Lead
Current Employee
Has worked at Microsoft for 9 years
April 12, 2014
4.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Microsoft has unbelievable infrastructure and support to help you get your job done. The people who work here are very smart and passionate. Great pay and benefits.

Cons

Upper management is generally promoted from within and does not keep up on industry standards. The culture of doing things the "old way" and reinventing the wheel over and over stifles creativity and agility.

Advice to Management

We need to take more risks or experiment in order to stay relevant.

We can't be afraid to bring in industry veterans to manage teams or as high-level individual contributors.

Management needs to listen to the individual contributors who have very good ideas about the future but get burned out working with old processes.

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