Company: Microsoft
Date: 2019-11-26
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

A great time to work here, but lack of inclusion in MEA
Pros: A good number of openings, we can change jobs or region, it feels like a high school in the ISR team (in a good way) while the corporate team is more senior and overwhelmed (in a positive way). Since everything can be found in the building, it is super easy to make friends, and plans for the weekends. People are friendly, and the food is great. The management tend to be easy (but sometimes gets hard for no obvious reason). Exciting times to work in the biggest tech company in the world.
Cons: Middle-East and Africa is over 70 countries but you still manage to hire mostly Egyptian, from managers to TSP to AE to SSP... For instance, Pakistan is 3x bigger and doing the same business volume of Egypt, and not a single Pakistani in the building. Not talking about Africans (the ones born, raised and graduated from African countries, other than Egypt and South Africa): they almost do not exist. Unless you diversify your MEA team, the message is that you do not know what is MEA, and Diversity will not be more than a word in a "my top of mind" email, and the good ones will continue to leave MEA.