Interesting projects, great benefits, but a bad work environment
Interesting projects, great benefits, but a bad work environment
The medical benefits at Microsoft are easily the best in the US, especially if you have a family.
Lots of interesting projects to work on.
In many teams, a lot of freedom to manage your time.
Salary in general is good for the cost of living in Seattle.
- Abysmal stock performance.
- Most managers have no idea how to manage.
- Reviews and promotions are very unfair.
- In many teams, the fight for visibility stops people from doing real, useful work.
- As a developer, you rarely talk to a customer.
- What do PMs do, again?
- Good developers rarely make good managers.
- Many teams are dysfunctional because of the competitiveness among peers.
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