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Can be an amazing place to work

Software Engineer-II
Current Employee
Has worked at Microsoft for 4 years
August 31, 2019
Redmond, Washington
4.0
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Pros

Great benefits. Smart people to work with. Lots of passion to make the company better.

Joining the company to work on a passion project can be an incredible experience.

Cons

Management is unwilling to fully commit to new projects, often leading to under-funded, poorly executed programs. Management doesn't understand how their actions impact morale, and people can easily become isolated and left behind managing dead-end projects. As time goes on, the project you joined to work on might disappear.

Advice to Management

Be more decisive: fail fast and be more willing to admit when a project has failed. Progressively reducing a project's budget until it starves to death is bad for morale.

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