Jul 11, 2014
good until microsoft take over
Anonymous employee
Skype
Part of Microsoft
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Skype reviews
3.7
70% would recommend to a friend
Gurdeep Singh Pall
53% approve of CEO
39% positive business outlook
Gender
4.0
Jun 30, 2014
A place where old and new clash... badly
Current employee, more than 3 years
Prague
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
+ If you're a free spirit, you'll love the Skype culture, in and out of work + Pay, bonuses and benefits are top notch, at least for Prague (CZ) + The work community is very friendly. You'll feel very cozy + Very undemanding work conditions. Possibilities to work from home, no pressure on how much time you spend at work if you deliver at the end of sprints + Working with top notch technologies and hardware, especially if you're working on the backend side + Fair review system, based on performance and peer feedback
Cons
- Politics, politics, politics. Projects come and go, and you'll rarely get too attached to a specific project - Different parts of management seem to have different views on how we should achieve our vision - "Skype" management and "Microsoft" management often have very different opinions. Unfortunately, their battlefield are the hard-working employees - (Very) Hard life if you're unlucky enough to still have to work with old (legacy) components which are cryptic, unstable and very hard to grasp for newcomers. Same if you're working on the parts which need "backwards compatibility", like features depending on Peer-to-peer or old proprietary protocols - Catastrophic tentative to mix up Agile development with our slow product evolution. Meetings and Agile processes are a massive productivity killer
3.0
Apr 22, 2014
Test engineer at skype
Current employee, more than 3 years
Palo Alto, CA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Working with great people, since Microsoft showed up compensation, health insurance, bonuses and facilities provided got better, more career opportunities among different teams.
Cons
Since Microsoft showed up Skype started spending more time on integration than on actual development, so there are lots of opportunities that were lost due to acquisition process.
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