Microsoft

Decent pay and stock options Free drinks Nice campus

Management constantly changes, often for the worse. I was reorged roughly every 1.5 years during my 5+ year tenure at the company. Each time, goals would change and large amounts of work would just be scrapped.

They boasted remote work for so long and then caved like every other company, trying to force employees back to the office after many moved away because the company kept promising remote work was there to stay.

Ethics and morals are punished, while being a mindless "yes man" who pays no mind to user satisfaction or privacy is rewarded.

Very ableist culture. They gloat about how many people with disabilities they hire, but they shove them all into teams that go nowhere and have minimal contact with the rest of the company. Extra terrible for neurodivergent people, as not being able to follow the company's hive mind of thought will get you punished time and time again.

Stop resetting organizations every 1-2 years. Stop trying to push subscription services down customers' throats. Stop changing business goals and directions to chase market buzzwords.