Microsoft

Pay and benefits, though TC still lags behind other tech giants.

• All in on AI, which results in cognitive offloading and terrible onboarding, such as asking coworkers how to do something yields a "just ask Copilot" response.
• Specific to me, but a terrible micromanaging environment.
• Specific to me, but I was hired onto a hybrid three-day-per-week role that turned into five days per week shortly after being hired, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense because my team is spread across different countries, so I'm still in remote calls all the time.
• Antiquated tech stack, which is frustrating to use.
• No standardization on documentation means there's simultaneously too much and too little, with a lot of broken links.
• Everything is set up to prevent you from getting things done. Tools take too long to load, webpages operate at a crawl, ADO is a terrible product with terrible UX and load times, Teams is a godawful product, and so on.

I have no idea. Things are so broken that I truly don't know how to fix it. I started applying for jobs elsewhere after only a week because I couldn't see a way forward.