No severance layoff
No severance layoff
The pay is better than smaller-name companies. The benefits package is good, with quite a bit of fringe benefits and discounts. Depending on where you land in the company, you can have access to some pretty killer opportunities.
Very corporate, cutthroat, especially lately. They kicked off the latest round of layoffs with zero severance, calling them "performance based" layoffs. Corporatist crap. It is really just a way to dodge paying severance and even cut off health benefits mid-month. This one left a lot of families high and dry to save a buck.
There are way too many middle managers jockeying for promotions and patting themselves on the back instead of actually building things people are going to use. It is also very much not one Microsoft, despite what Satya says on camera. You can access far more or less resources and opportunities depending on where you are in the company. Give me the makeup of a team—how many "senior" or "principal" positions they are allocated—and you can tell where in the company they are.
Stop saying one thing and doing another. You're providing shareholder value, nothing else. Stop pretending you care; it's not your job to care.
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