Microsoft Program Manager reviews

Frequent layoffs to please shareholders and meet financial targets

For me, pretty much everything else. The work wasn't particularly interesting, and when something interesting did pop up, it was usually allocated to someone purely based on office politics. Microsoft is definitely not a place where you can show up as a new hire and do awesome things, it's more likely that your co-worker who has been there for their entire career will be assigned the work before you've ever even heard about it. There were also usually ~2x as many people involved as there needed to be, which only slow things down. That is especially difficult because Microsoft is a VERY meeting heavy organization, so you'll spend lots of times in meetings that 1) go over, 2) get rescheduled repeatedly, and 3) are 90% irrelevant to your work. Honestly, there were a lot of other things as well, but I don't have 2 hours to write this.