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Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Microsoft for 2 years
September 16, 2024
New York, New York
4.0
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Pros

They are a leading software company with good work-life balance.

Cons

HR and Senior Management are evasive and unreachable within a reasonable timeframe.

Advice to Management

Stop with ghost jobs, under-leveling, refusing personal data requests, undermining support requests, and backtracking on offers after candidates like myself clear your hiring events.

When you say, "Your offer awaits! An offer is coming upon team matching," even if Wall Street is rewarding the stock for cutting operational expenses like employees, your management still should honor your commitments made in the hiring process, such as 2-3 weeks to team match and extend the official offer from that team directly to the candidate.

You should not continue making false statements and repeat assurances months later from recruiters that say, "We are actively hiring!" especially if the position in question was canceled (with neither a status update email nor "Action Center" notification to the hiring event job ID at Microsoft) after the hiring event and before receiving the misleading "Your offer awaits!" email.

After that, repeat assurances were made of an offer coming in your hiring process. I have tried multiple formal channels with your company, seeing multiple suitable positions both at and below the Level 64 for which I cleared and could very reasonably be team-matched to, only to be stymied and delayed by a process that has no integrity.

I will hope to see, and should be expecting better of Microsoft and its management in the future.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
5.0
Culture and Values
4.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
3.0
Career Opportunities
5.0
Compensation and Benefits
4.0
Senior Management
2.0

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