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Nice company; less exciting product

Software Development Engineer In Test
Former Employee
Worked at Microsoft for less than 1 year
March 8, 2012
Mountain View, California
4.0
Approves of CEO
Pros

Nice company culture; nice & smart colleagues; work-life balance.

Cons

Not so exciting product.

There is some potential politics you should be very careful about. People have to learn how to show themselves.

Performance reviews will replace some people every year, this is for sure, especially for the Mountain View branch. I heard about several cases where a manager has finally "walked out" people from the workplace. So, please keep on checking in your code changelist, keep on raising your voice in email threads. Also, please do not make even a little mistake, which will be written into the performance review.

Advice to Management

Try more interesting products. Try more challenging ideas.

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