Microsoft

There aren't many good things left. It used to be good mostly on the work-life balance front, but over the last two years, things have changed in the completely opposite direction.

• No clear company direction.
• Only one person driving the company direction—the CEO. All the other management levels just repeat that marching order with zero creativity or willingness to challenge things. It went like this:
  • Security is the top priority.
  • While security is the top priority, quality is also the top priority.
  • No, forget that, security is the top priority.
  • AI is the top priority.
  • Don't get distracted, all three are the top priority.
  • No, no, you're getting it wrong, so you'll get fired, because testing was the top priority.
  • AI is still the top priority.
  • You don't use AI enough, so you're fired.
  • AI isn't as top of a priority, security is.

If you're simply going to follow the marching orders without anything from you.