Microsoft reviews

Every fiscal year which is in end of June, there's bound to be some changes at Microsoft and these changes sometimes/mostly means layoffs. There was also a layoff of more than thousand people globally in June 2022. These changes happen every fiscal year and these changes usually effect individual contributors. The other con side is, manager changes...I had 7 managers in 4 years at Microsoft. And this effects the team and your bonus. How it effects your bonus is depending on the role, there is Revenue Based Incentive (RBI) and Contribution Based Incentive (CBI) bonus...If it's a sales role you join, you'll get both bonuses, if it's support/operational/administrative you'll only get CBI. The way management changes affect you on the bonus side is usually on the CBI side, the manager decides how you've contributed to your team and wider team at the end of each fiscal year, and if you had management changes, they usually say we haven't seen enough of you and etc so give you a lower percentage and sometimes zero. If they give you zero, you're stuck in that role as you can't move internally which is clearly stated in the internal HR web portal unless you've good relationship with hiring manager that wants you in their team. Also if you under perform they'll put you in Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) which is like hell, really difficult to get out of as you're micromanaged and very stressful and frustrating process. If they put you on PIP you might as well start looking for a role elsewhere and leave. Hard to get promoted, first of all there are many factors to this as listed below: Career Level & Career Stage Nationality (You're 99% more likely to be promoted if you're Irish.) Relationship with Management (Networking) Good performance (Sales Performance and Contribution performance)

Treats D & I as a tick box excercise and manoveurs anyone of a certain age out of the business. Disguises redundancy as a performance issue. A lt of nepotism exists. Work Life balanceto MS means MS giving you the flexibility to make up the hours to do your work in your family time as they fill your work day with a lot of useless meetings.