Microsoft reviews

As an artist you would expect to be making great art. That's not the case at Turn 10. All the fun content creation is outsourced to India and Vietnam. At Turn 10 the artist basically polish and refine the assets that the vendors return. It's often tedious and boring work. On occasion you would have to model or texture something that was missed or incorrect but most of the time you were just touching up something. The other problem with working at Turn 10 and Microsoft in general is they don't tend to hire full time. It's contracts only. If you're good and the team likes you there's a good chance they will hire you back for another contract but if stability is what you're after stay away from Microsoft/Turn 10. Also, you don't actually work for Microsoft you work for an outsource agency that hires you out to Microsoft. This way Microsoft doesn't have to pay you benefits or profit sharing. You can get benefits from your agency but probably not as good as Microsoft gives to its actual employees.

Many people do nothing and slide under the radar. Make big changes you risk your job You may get no credit for your large impactful changes be prepared for people to take credit for your work Any change is seen as wrong and attacks will come from all sides, be prepared to defend the changes you made from constant attack. Completely incompetent management which support each other and drive Review system based on who likes you not what you have done Promotions are few and far between and when you get them they are not very large.