Difficult and insular
Difficult and insular
Stock award, free food, and free LinkedIn shuttle to the Sunnyvale campus.
Insular team. Every new idea has to be in the "Microsoft way." Tools are ancient (my team did not use Git) and frustrating. Having to work on Windows tools, too many onerous processes and procedures (you spend very little time coding). They don't understand industry terms and lingo. I was mocked for saying I am taking PTO instead of using OOF (out of office) to describe my time off. People who grow within the organization are preferred to people who are hired from outside when assigning new tasks.
Please open your mind to new ideas when you hire folks from outside.
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