Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-12-10
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

Used to love it
Pros: * great medical and benefits (but this is being trimmed)
* lots of smart people around
Cons: * politics - this did not appear to be that bad years ago but got really bad
* management - very bad with favoritizm all over. I know that manager generally don't know too much about details of each person's job but recently all my managers were completely clueless. Any issues, problems and help with improving/changing things were met with brush off. I strongly believe that bad management at lead level just trickles down from upper management.
* recent firings let go of most valueable contributors and left lots of dead wood stayed around. I think that they should replace most of the management and try to build from there.
* constant requests for feedback and such but this is only used to create meaningless reports and nothing useful happenes. Years ago we had a big drive to improve some metrics. Lots of meetings and such and it looked promissing. Then one day the whole thing died and was forgotten - pretty normal at Microsoft
* I used to be loyal to Microsoft and there was big thing about people being most valuable asset. Over the years there was more and more of people as replacable and the firiing of 18000 people was just final "we don't care about people"

Am I being resentful for being let go? I guess I am but I am also try to be fair too. Most of biggest contributors that I knew were let go and almost every looser (people that have done nothing or next to nothing but had good connections) kept the job