Company: Microsoft
Date: 2019-10-20
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Highly Toxic Management in Australia
Pros: Salary, felxibility to work from home
Cons: The Australian sub has gone through a terrible change over 2019 and needs a good shake up, the culture is like IBM in the 90s or like a chapter written by Jack Welch. Back stabbing, lack of transparency, a lot of insecure people who throw others under a bus to save themselves and I am talking about the leadership teams.
There is also an unrealistic expectation of travel, the company does not care about your personal life or your family despite saying they do, they act as though they own you. It feels very much like a cult and it is a very toxic environment in Australia at least.
Lastly I want to highlight I saw a lot of poor treatment of people by management while HR turned a blind eye. Hiring of people in roles that were already filled by other people. Being told one day you are performing well, then the next day being pulled into HR meetings to say you were not meeting expectations. Roles are being downgraded by 2 levels forcing people to leave so management can hire their friends. Or worst yet people made redundant one week and two weeks later asked to come back. No one knows where they stand all while the numbers are crashing.
Steer clear of this company until they clean up management.