Great Team, Corporate Bureaucracy
Great Team, Corporate Bureaucracy
I was lucky enough to mainly work with really good, hardworking people. The managers that I reported to directly were very cool, and when I showed that I wanted more responsibility, they had no trouble trusting me and gave it to me with little oversight aside from key milestones, etc.
It is a massive global corporation, which means there is no real heart when it comes to the big decisions to cut or to keep.
Also, all too often upper management is pushing to get things done that can't get done, at least not well. That goes against my drive to do things correctly.
It is exceedingly difficult to go from contractor to FTE.
Everything in life works better when it is in balance. The balance is missing from Microsoft.
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