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Senior Software Development Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Microsoft for 2 years
April 2, 2017
Vancouver, British Columbia
4.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros
  • Working with very smart and nice colleagues.
  • Good work-life balance and great salary and benefits.
  • Contribute to software that is globally used, which is exciting and rewarding.
  • Continued progress to standardize on technology, use Open Source, and publicly available software.
  • Inspiring CEO talks.
Cons
  • There is no good channel to provide feedback about managers.
  • Despite inspiring talks by the CEO, many employees seem to have a negative perspective about the company.
  • The reward process still encourages competition within each group and between groups.
Advice to Management

Change the reward process to really encourage collaboration.

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