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Smart Teams, Slow Fixes

Software Engineer-II
Current Employee
Has worked at Microsoft for 4 years
September 19, 2018
Vancouver, British Columbia
5.0
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Pros

Great environment. Most of the teams are packed with extremely smart and competent people.

Cons

Work outside the Redmond office is not valued as much, even if you produce more.

Some teams and maybe entire orgs may have a toxic culture (the remnants of the Balmer era).

This is being fixed, but some parts are moving way too slowly.

Advice to Management

Try to reduce the discrimination. I am not talking about gender or race; Microsoft is great in this regard. I am talking about Redmond vs. the rest of the world and full-time employees vs. vendors.

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