It's a big company..
It's a big company..
- Lots of different projects you can work on.
- Stability.
- Lots of bureaucracy.
- The way they pay and reward employees is similar to a communist system. Your level determines your pay grade regardless of the type of work you do. You could work 60+ hours a week (like me) on a highly technical project and still get paid as much as the guy working 30 hours a week (lots of them).
- The company is too large and old. A lot of the upper management is stuck in old ways, and it really holds the company back. It seems some of that may change with Satya, but I wouldn't expect it to happen too fast.
- Many people have titles they do not deserve, leading to bad assumptions about what a person can do.
- Learn about recent trends in the tech community.
- Learn that all work is not equal.
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