Microsoft

Lots of resources to learn and progress in your professional career. Lots of projects that allow virtually anyone to find something they like to do.

The D365 for Marketing organization is run like a startup. High-level managers openly embrace it and say that it is a good thing that we are driven by urgency.

Work-life balance is bad on many levels. Starting from having calls after your EOD with your US colleagues, to having to work at night or on weekends, as this is what everybody else does. This means that if you do not do it, you are seen as an underperformer.

There is virtually no time for formal training. Even though management gives the official message that it is encouraged, the day-to-day pressure to deliver tasks is so high that telling your manager that you want to do a soft-skills training would sound like a joke, and you would be seen as an irresponsible person. This is evident when you are told, "Please feel free to do the training, just bear in mind that you are a Senior Engineer and we have lots of work to do."

And the worst, sadly, is that these situations are not specific to any particular time (e.g., before a product release), but they sustain over time. It is very usual to hear people complaining about the same off the record.