Microsoft reviews

A lot has changed in the last 9 years, when I signed in our benefits were unbelievable and now they aren't that bad but it takes a lot of work to maintain the hsa plan and now I have like 4k a year of out of pocket expenses which I did not receive a pay increase for. Also if you're not at the mother ship in Redmond it's not the same experience.

There are just too many lifers in the company who are really behind the curve in terms of innovation & fresh thinking. At times, it felt like the civil service where you clock in, put in your time & if you keep you nose clean and schmooze the right people- you'll move up. I hate to say it but I had some of the most incompetent managers of my career in MS. Not bad people, just unconsciously incompetent.Yet they are the people reviewing you and putting you on that slow train to nowhere from a career development point of view. This just exacerbates the trend towards settling into a role with comfortable pay & benefits, keep everything stead as she goes whilst competitors eat your lunch. Training & development are below par. And for a tech company, some of the internal systems & processes were beyond bad. Internal comms within larger teams is awful. People seem to hold onto information as some sort of ego stroking status symbol yet there is never any accountability for this behaviour.