Microsoft

Microsoft as a company offers one of the best in-class perks, like:

• Employee stock plan: every quarter, you can buy stocks at a 10% discount.
• INR 100 food subsidy per day.
• Free AC buses.
• Large campus and lots of play areas: Pool Table, TT Table, Chess, Carrom, etc.

This is specific to MSIT -> Professional Services, aka CFE Department.

1. Worst quality of code I have ever seen in my entire career.
2. Extremely unstructured work environment; no guidance or clarity of role.
3. Outdated, obsolete, and legacy technologies used.
4. Too much focus on only Microsoft technologies. Managers/Architects (namesake) do not care about anything outside Microsoft.
5. Lot of politics and bootlicking.
6. For Level 62 and beyond, it is very tough to survive beyond 2 years. Hire and fire policy.
7. Rather than focusing on improving code quality, all the folks are interested only in creating "impact" (sick and tired of this word IMPACT).
8. Engineering Leads - it's a shame to call them engineers.

Do not hire senior resources for short-term work and fire them. Hire only if you have a long-term vision. Managers do not have visibility beyond six months.