Microsoft

1. If you have a good manager, your life will definitely be good.
2. Tons of learning resources, software, and monthly $150 Azure Cloud credit.
3. Excellent brand reputation as a Microsoft employee, outside of the USA and outside FAANG companies.

1. If your manager is not good, then your life will be horrible. A manager is the king.
2. They will put complete blame onto you even though the manager makes their side of mistakes, but only you suffer because of the 6-month reviews they provide.
3. The Microsoft culture speaks about recognizing individual working styles, being inclusive, and all. However, none of that would mean anything if your manager is on the wrong side of all those things.
4. It's not really good with work-life balance either. The managers did not have any clue on how much it would take to implement a task and just applied pressure on every task.

I have had 2 really good managers though, but 2 horrible managers as well.

With my 5+ years of FTE experience and 4+ years of vendor experience with Microsoft, I would say Microsoft has changed a lot after Satya came. You do understand that if the company does well for customers, then it would be horrible for employees, right?

Please do not disguise or mislead your employees with all the culture BS if managers do not really follow them. All you want is pure business impact, so just be clear on that, so the engineers would not waste time on all those culture trainings.