Less pay, more politics
Less pay, more politics
Reasonable work-life balance if you are in the right team.
Lower pay than many other companies.
Politics.
How good your life will be depends entirely on your manager.
If you are unlucky, your tenure will be short.
Microsoft does reorgs yearly, it seems. The management does not seem to match people with teams very well after a reorg.
If you end up in a team that is not a match, you are stuck and will have to look for another job.
Finding another position inside Microsoft will require that you interview again, exactly as if you applied from outside Microsoft.
There are many companies that pay much better and offer more interesting work.
I cannot recommend Microsoft.
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesSeptember 29, 2024Very disappointed. One interviewer was from a different team (replacing another interviewer) and continued to ask questions on topics that were not very related to the position and that I am not familiar with.
