Microsoft reviews

Higher management is doing a terrible job. Things are always running in an urgency mode. There was a data breach, then hold a 3 day security training, there are incidents, schedule meetings. Discrimination issues? schedule a meeting and be done with it. No real long term planning. Morale is low. Some teams are working 80 hour weeks and some teams work 1 hour weeks.

Very poor work-life balance. Meetings scheduled after hours and close to EOD that you don't have to attend, but you are strongly expected to. Frequent and long on-call duty with many calls day and night. A lot of your time is spent on checking and ping-ponging new customer issues. Big project with hundreds of contributors and tight deadlines, the code changes literally under your hands. Fragile and complicated CI pipeline broken or blocked every other day. Office far removed from the centre with not very many restaurants around.