Microsoft reviews

1 bad weather, make you sick , drive you crazy, no sunlight for months in winter, which is Oct to next June 2 bad and dishonest managers, assign all non visible work to you and leave visible work to his or her favorite guy, 3 it is a popularity contest, the work is simple, anybody can do it, the question is how to get popular. 4 you are not valued base on you work, since the work is simple, it is purely up to the manager, they can give you 1 or 5 as he wish 5 not so smart engineers, most engineers are so so, , good ones are not happy with the review and left, the survivors are very good at fighting and politics 6 they completely ignore the fact that you made the system more stable, they think you are just fixing up things, and you have no value, ever wonder Ms product suck? 7 you are working for a dead rot wood, after a few years, you become thinking their way, which is a clumsy, clunky way, rather than a simple effective way of creating software 8 the building seems always full of car exhaust pollution, maybe because the cold weather, and the under ground parking, I am sure the CO is very high, make people very sleepy all the time, 9 nobody out in the industry does things Ms does, because nobody can afford the waste, if you think your knowledge can apply somewhere else? I definitely regretted working here, wasted my time

Microsoft attracts and promotes managers who are narcissistic, hyper-competitive, and often unethical. If you happen to get one of these managers, you will suffer greatly. Like many large companies, Microsoft has a peer-review system that drives a gang-like type of social behavior amongst its employees. Often, the most successful employees are experts at manipulating their coworkers (and measuring loyalty). Such a system is the bane of employees who are inventive, productive, and intellectually honest. Good people simply cannot survive in such an atmosphere. New employees are instructed to watch a series of training videos where a major theme is: "No employee can be penalized for behaving ethically." This is completely false. There are no systems in place to protect employees who behave ethically. If your manager is evil, you will likely be penalized for behaving ethically. Also, what the hell is an SDET anyway? Are you kidding me?