Company: Microsoft
Date: 2015-08-05
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Good corporation overall, but locally rep office badly managed
Pros: - High salary and social package if you are a full-time staff employee (30% of the local workforce only, mostly sales and top management)
- Lots of opportunities to network with overseas colleagues, share best practises, and learn from them
Cons: - Extremely poor management. Top managers often come from overseas on international assignments for a couple of years only, and all they care about is their bonuses and visibility in front of the HQ;
- HR is the weakest function locally, acting as enforcer of top-down decisions from the management and not ready to hear any concerns or voices from the team; Zero investment into growing local talent and creating career opportunities and growth for local people;
- Wide practice of stretch assignments, when employees get to do a lot of additional tasks, not necessarily related to their positions and without any additional pay;
- Low salary and job security for vendors (70% of the local workforce). They are constantly discriminated against and perceived as disposable;
- Lots of read tape - reports, permissions, etc.