Company: Microsoft
Date: 2019-11-25
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Great company or an IC, worst for a manager role
Pros: Satya Nadella has the right vision and direction for the company.  He understands how to make the company successful. 

Pay and benefits is exceptional. Flexible work, autonomous work environment. Excellent company and work environment to be an individual contributor in.
Cons: Microsoft Services is the worst place to work in a manager role, if you have the option do not come in as a manager. Being an individual contributor  in services was great and the work was highly impactful. As a manager here it is utter chaos, and this is coming from someone with a lot of leadership experience in other roles and companies. Other managers, in attempts to justify their own roles and existence, make up side projects for mid to upper management that never serve a purpose to our clients yet they cannot perform the basics in their own role. Leadership is incompetent enough to fall for this charade time and time again, meanwhile the managers that aren’t busy brown nosing are the ones keeping the business afloat. This is the worst organization I’ve ever been a leader in and if I had to do it again I would never have become a manager here. Run away before you get sucked into this dumpster fire of fifedoms, favorites, and meaningless work.