Company: Microsoft
Date: 2021-03-07
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Cultural difficulties
Pros: Good benefits, almost ok work life balance in some of the teams, company level conferences
Cons: Still issues with diversity and inclusion, they talk about it, but every female I know in the company are struggling with different aspects of cultural issues. I personally experienced being bullied with a senior director at work all the times in my 1/1 meetings with him regarding work, constantly randomizing work without much structure. MSR is definitely worse cultural wise, any role without "research" in the title considered inferior even if you also have a PhD like the researchers.