Pay was great, but the work was stressful and demanding
Pay was great, but the work was stressful and demanding
Can't beat the salary, bonus, and especially the stock rewards.
Highly demanding. Software engineers are expected to do DevOps and Escalation Engineering.
Dynamics engineering management at Microsoft in Fargo needs to stop punishing senior engineers with a promotion ceiling and all of the dirty work, while new, junior engineers are given cool projects and fast promotions (which is what they want, so they can relocate to Redmond).
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