Microsoft reviews

You will consistently feel like you are being ground under the heel of a massive corporation and your managers cannot do anything as decisions from on high screw you over. Incredibly irresponsible employer who cares only about making money for themselves, not about making the world better. Nobody seems to know how promotions work. Your purpose is to make money for shareholders. This will be rammed down your throat. That means you'll often be encouraged to cut corners you don't feel comfortable cutting. Read your contract carefully. By signing it, you're waiving a lot of your rights under UK law (until you explicitly contact HR to have them re-instated). Pay rises will be consistently lower than inflation, meaning that you'll likely find after a few years that new hires make more than you do. They're currently all in on AI and if you don't believe in the technology, that's a problem for your career growth, You get told 'we don't have budget for that' a lot, even if it's just expensing £20 for travel to a location for business, which isn't really believable when they are allegedly one of the biggest companies in the world. This also applies to promotions and pay rises where you'll often be told 'you deserve more, but we don't have budget' (or words to that effect). It's a large tech company. That comes with the same level of 'laying off large sections of the company' and 'everybody gets an effective pay decrease except upper management who get a large bonus this year' and so on that is becoming more standard in the industry.

The India Studio leadership is toxic at best. The superfluous cultural values are thrown around with great confidence by managers which disappointingly turns out to be plastic & never practiced. You will be underappreciated from the beginning and made to feel miserable about yourself, quoting how lucky you are that Microsoft has hired you. They boast about "growth mindset" but the managers have the most narrow outlook and tunnel vision, imposing their own personal beliefs on day-to-day operations, that too inconsistently. The system is rotten to the core and you will be dispensible for your manager's lack of accountability. HR intervention is absent and the show is run by non-empathetic managers.