Company: Microsoft
Date: 2019-01-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

It's OK (Datacenter)
Pros: These are the Pros for Microsoft Datacenter:

- Easy Job
- Pays more than IBM
- Stress free in terms of physical labor
- Microsoft offers amazing benefits. My current benefit payout is 19.1k. 
- Microsoft pays you back for fitness related items
- Workplace environment is relaxed
- Great starter job in the IT industry, I would recommend this job to people just starting out.
Cons: These are the Cons for Microsoft Datacenter:

- Does not pay nearly as much as Amazon or Oracle 
- Job might be easy, but it's very linear. You will definitely need something to distract you from the boredom.
- Gossip and backstabbing is like wildfire in this particular location of Microsoft.
- Does not offer any holidays off at all, unless requested. And only 3 people per shift can get them off. Everyone else is stuck here on holidays. (upside you get double pay if working on holidays).
- People get hired here with subpar knowledge on how to do the work, which has caused a high turnover rate of talent. 
- Very little to almost no career opportunities in terms of promotions. Most people have to move out, in order to move up. This also sorta ties into the talent having a higher turnover rate.
- Yearly pay raise is extremely low.