Microsoft Senior Software Design Engineer reviews

Work/life balance is also ranked low in each year Work Health Index but management does not seem to take this serious, particularly for those working in the online cloud computing environment requiring 24x7. Sometimes need to deal with legacy infrastructure before some improvements could be made to enhance systems. A lot of overheads to perform some legacy tasks with less return on investment. Slowly becoming to embrace open software standards but take lots of time to retrain workers with Windows knowledge.

The review system is unfair and dehumanizing. Stack ranking pits an employee against their peers and destroys morale and teamwork. Too much emphasis placed on your visibility and not actual work. Managers have 'good attrition' commitments and once you are targeted life can become pretty miserable until you are managed out or leave. If you are at t level too long, you will be fired. "Up or out". The analogy my skip level manager told me was that anyone that stays at level too long is like arterial plaque on the corporate body.