Microsoft reviews

I’ve been at Microsoft for over 10 years. There was a time where I looked forward to waking up and going to work. I felt the work was challenging and rewarding. My contributions were acknowledged and I was learning from my peers and leaders. Over the past few years, however, I’ve seen a drastic change in culture. Priorities change frequently and result in poor work life balance. Mid and low level managers are focused on empire building and promote extremely toxic culture. On top of this, the company had layoffs and stretched it out over many months, keeping employees extremely stressed about job security. We were told to work extra hard during this time, as if to prove we had some worth, and rewarded for that effort with more layoffs and the announcement of no raises. All of this is happening during record high stock prices. It feels that management no longer values its talent and is just chewing and spitting out folks who have worked long and hard to contribute to the success of the company.

1. No decent way to submit formal internal complaints. 2. HR is outsourced and won't help you that much. 3. Low chance for promotion and upward movement. 4. Fired for nonsense reasons, with no warning previously, no chance for appeal. One day out of blue manager told me I was performing "well below minimum expect level", "cannot complete task independently", "do not respect company culture", "disrupt team environment", among other nonsense reasons. I have no formal channel to complain, manger's mangers (M2) doesn't take me seriously and say I lack respect for my manager's judgement. Next month I was terminated for performing well below minimum expect level and have no way to appeal. Left a message to CEO on Teams the day I left saying I have absolute confidence anyone I worked with, aside from my manager, will say I perform just as well, if not better than my coworkers. I know it doesn't change anything though. I would sue for wrongful termination, but I don't have money or energy to fight 10 years+ lawsuit with MS.