Microsoft Engineering Department Employee Reviews
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
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A company that really empowers every person and every organization to thrive.
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What do you like best about the leadership team?
They help boost my confidence in this job
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Transparent with focus to the business and the values that make Microsoft thrive!
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Couls be more forward thinking.
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Clear vision and priorities on stuff
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Human Centric, inspire, vision clarity
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What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Recruit manager with integrity and value honesty
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Busy work then fired to avoid paying severance for 16 years of service.
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Leadership. Trust. Fairness.
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Planning, communication, and actual leadership. Lower level management needs to know how to manage people, not technology.
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Decision making. It's a real easy place to just come into work and go through the motions daily.
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What is the best part about your compensation package?
My pay is the best.
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Competitive compensation compared with other big techs in the country I live.
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Time off and fertility benefits. Lots of other perks.
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Microsoft pay is fair, but not top-dollar, but makes up for this with a rapidly growing stock price, amazing benefits, and a culture that truly cares about helping people when needed, and supporting folks in their learning, growth, etc.
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The Base salary is higher than the average
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Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
Total compensation x 2 (or 3)
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Microsoft underpays its engineers compared to Google and Amazon.
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Super busy. But compensation is worst.
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Stock pay compared to similar competing companies is bit low for microsoft.
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My pay is $18,000 less than others doing similar work at other companies with similar levels of experience plus I'm three levels below where I should be at this stage of my career given the experience and impact I've had
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What are some of the best things about your team?
Their understanding of the job
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Colleagues are willing to help each other, providing assistance and guidance when needed.
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Innovative, smart, bold, energetic and empathetic.
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Kind and polite. Silent engine.
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I have never worked with as many amazing, skilled, capable, directed, focused, honest, and most importantly fun people. Working with Microsoft's people is BY FAR it's biggest benefit.
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What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
Skills, experience, attitude and professionalism
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We need to improve our communication skills and be more focused on the task at hand.
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Better identification of larger goals, team spirit to get the grunt things right
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Great team and coworkers at tis company
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Coworkers barely talk to each other, very individualistic culture
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What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
There is a lot of diversity in this company.
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Offering robust benefits packages, including health insurance. Good learning opportunities
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Feeling safe to make mistakes and learn for them.
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Everyone is respected at every level.
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The entire company's culture has transformed under Satya's leadership to be far more open, diverse, honest, respectful, supportive, empathic and caring.
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What needs to change to make the company culture better?
by having good work life balance
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Appreciate more on core value than money alone
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Great learning environment
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Everyone is positive
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Positive
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What did you like most about the interview process?
The interview was well Structured and Well-Organized with much Emphasis put on Problem-Solving Skills
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Lunch! Lol. Ability to neet plenty of people to gauge equal like for the team
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Microsoft's interview process is pretty great, and compared to some companies, is surprisingly rapid - typically several cross-discipline interviews in one day followed by a rapid decision. Microsoft trusts its interviewers' perspective and experience & gut instinct about candidates' potential.
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They care about writing tests
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Got to meet a manager who sold me on the culture and work of the company
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What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Stop white-boarding. Rely more on experience and track record.
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There should be some kind of program to help you transition between organizations. Right now, it's up to you to do all of the work, make extra time for informationals and interviews, and you're not able to drop a level or two if you want to change careers paths.
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What makes you most happy at work?
Access to learning opportunities, training, and career advancement
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Freedom to be autonomous, being trusted and empowered to deliver my best work.
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Hybrid work environment is really nice.
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Having an endless set of challenges to figure out solutions for, and an endless list of things to learn and discover ... and the support and backing to attack those lists.
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The cutting edge technology that I get to use
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What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Leadership, team mate, msft needs to set the bar high so we can work for and with our equivalent
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Diversity in upper management and lower management.
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Accountability. Replace the leadership with someone who actually built successful company from the ground app and who can realy transform.
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Negative
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Nothing serous to do
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What do you like best about your company?
Company invented modern computing. Offers leading AI and business management applications.
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pay and benefits are great. resources for learning are good.
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Overall strategy and direction of the company under Satya Nadella.
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Collaboration with top experts in my field, and work/life balance.
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Benefits
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What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Respectful attitude by managers. Managers here have outdated knowledge and put themselves above company goals
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Company is one of largest philanthropic organizations on the planet! Keep doing what you're doing!
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Field Sales & Services Orgs are in disarray and misaligned with corp.
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Stabilization of organizational changes due to market changes.
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Less focus on LGBTQ...., Less political involvement in social issues.
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