Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-11-25
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Microsoft IDC - Great colleagues & work, but limited opportunity
Pros: - Very broad variety of domains to work on across Microsoft and most have a presence in Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) Hyderabad.
- Technically brilliant and highly motivated colleagues
- Great benefits and support infrastructure
Cons: - Everything is home-grown and inclination is to build in-house than look for good alternatives outside.
- Very limited exposure to what's happening in the broader industry. Goes back to the first point of preferring to look within than outside.
- At least in IDC Hyderabad, there are limited opportunities for growth and so many folks tend to move to Redmond (Microsoft headquarters). This causes a lot of churn in teams and is the biggest source of attrition.
- IDC Hyderabad has been at a steady state for past 4-5 years. This further stifles opportunities for growth. Meanwhile competitors like Amazon, Google have big growth plans in Hyderabad. Also, companies like Apple and Uber are also setting up centers there.