Microsoft

High salary, with good additional bonuses like dentist and gym compensation.

I started working just as corona started, and I was on shutdown. There was a big epic to deploy service to new cloud regions. After two months, my manager changed. It was a manager who hadn't worked at Microsoft previously and didn't know the process. During the interview, we were discussing moving to Docker containers and changing the deployment process. But the team didn't make it during half a year. The only thing I was doing during that half a year was running ev2 commands with the supervision of someone in the US. The team was working in startup mode, but the company wasn't. So I wasn't able to estimate my tasks because there were company-level deadlines, but I also had to do it fast because management wanted to show the best results. And there wasn't a place to discuss ideas, as is usual in startups. After half a year, I understood that I was losing my qualification and decided to leave the company to be relevant on the market.

Give employees the option to estimate their tasks. Normalize work-life balance. Don't pretend to be a startup in a non-startup environment. Be less narcissistic.