Company: Microsoft
Date: 2017-04-14
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Technical Writer
Pros: Get to work with great devs and technology.
Cons: HR has no teeth. People are put into documentation positions with no qualifications. The last editor I worked with didn't have a four year degree in anything. She had no idea what a dev edit meant. She stated she checked out five topics a day and "worked them over" with no thought to developing one voice or the fact that some of them hadn't changed. As another writer put it "she just changes things."