Microsoft

Pay is fine, I guess.

Lack of career options. No internal movement options without going through a full, dehumanizing interview screening again. Posts record profit quarter and celebrates by laying off thousands of employees. Every mandate and priority only matters if it cuts costs.

Gone is any impetus for creating innovative experiences, quality products, and environments that care about people.

AI to cut costs, reduce headcounts, and eliminate orgs. They don't hire the brightest nor best people. There's no accountability or consequences for LT and execs. They get away with terrible decisions that sink orgs and cost the company billions by scapegoating the teams under them so they get a bigger bonus by closing studios and firing entire teams that only did what those execs directed them to do.

They force you to be on-call 24/7 for long periods of time with no support. Bridge calls with thousands of random people around the world for hours and hours on end. Sleepless nights with your phone ringing off the hook because they're not interested in improving anything, just maintaining status quo and making it cheaper.

We stopped fixing anything more than a year ago and just piled on more half-baked "features" that makes the business "happy" while making every user experience worse, buggier, slower, frustrating, and aimless.

Abandon ship. The upper management doesn't care about you or any individual at the company and is rapidly trying to replace you with AI at every conceivable opportunity.