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Software Development Engineer II
Current Employee
Has worked at Microsoft for 9 years
February 19, 2014
Redmond, Washington
5.0
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Pros

There are lots of talented people here, and it's a company that has the resources to support you in achieving your goals. The company also has many, MANY teams that can give you more opportunities than a lifetime if you desire to change things up.

Cons

There are many layers of management.

Sometimes those management layers will make decisions that completely change the course of your work without ever coming to personally talk to the affected teams about it.

This has been the cause of frustration for some extremely talented people.

There's no free food provided.

Advice to Management

Connect more with all the reporting chains below you. Ask them for a perspective from the lower rungs, as well as how your decisions will honestly affect them.

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