High salary, but overwhelming workload and poor management
Pros
- salary - possibility to work from home
Cons
- big company that behaves like a startup: you will do everything with crasy deadlines: coding, devops, qa, support (24/7 the whole week with often night/weekend calls) - management fires more and more people replacing it with useless AI, making people work overtime a lot for free - some teams are working on 4 or even more projects - very poor benefit system. Basically only MS Shares. No multi-sport card, no mobile phone (even when you literally obliged to be OnCall very often - prepare to pay for it by yourself) - almost zero work-life balance. A lot of meetings are outside of work hours - e.g. starting at 18:00 or even 19:00 or later. Management pushes to make you participate on this meetings with no overtime compensation - instead of coding you will literally spent more than 60% solving internal bureaucracy: requesting endless access groups, trying to find contact, run pointless procedures, filling documents with no real value. Real coding time is like 5-10% at most in almost all teams - you are responsible and blamed for everything. There is very little help from architects/managers (architects are almost absent and don't really participate in many projects at all) - very limited career options, typical American policy - they force you to perform higher role but won't really promote you
