Great for-profit company to work for. - werkgeversreview Software Development Engineer II bij Microsoft

4,0
5 mrt 2014
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Flexible schedule. Broad choice of careers in multiple products/departments. $15k matching donation for money or time given to non-profits. Many benefits: Transportation, health, stock, 401k, paid sick and paternal leaves. Many bright and fun people to work with. Tremendous salary.

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Work life balance may be hard to achieve for some teams. Politics come in to play sometimes in career safety and advancement. Large company means profits are the most important thing (hard to avoid).

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5,0
5 jul 2026
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Discretionary Time Off and Benefits Work life balance

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Ambiguity and constant change isn’t for everyone. High performance work culture, but the pay doesn’t match.

4,0
28 jan 2013
Anonieme werknemer
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1. If you love tech, this is a great place. No doubt you'll talk tech (mostly the MSFT stack) from enterprise to consumer - from PCs to phones to Xboxes - from datacenter to desktop. 2. What were GREAT benefits are now VERY GOOD (took a small step down) but still probably better than you'll find at 99% of large corporations. If you've got family - the value of the benefits is even higher. 401k match is nice. 3. Even with it's struggles MSFT is still a cash printing machine. This means if you can keep your nose clean and do reasonable work, you can have a stable job, pay your bills, feed your family, and not worry (too much) about layoffs. The stock you own likely won't tank, but probably won't go up much either. You'll get a bonus each year and some stock. It's a decent life if you aren't looking to light the world on fire.

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Brand on Your Resume: After many years of losing market share and struggling to be at the front end of innovation and the fact that there's 90,000 employees, don't think MSFT is necessarily going to be attractive on your resume to more agile and smaller companies. Managing Your Career: Make you say this out loud so it registers - 90,000 employees work there. Double that for vendors. It is VERY hard to "stand out" and move up in the company. Don't expect your manager to be much of an advocate or enabler to help you meet your career goals - they are basically trying to survive the stack rank every year too. Not familiar with the stack rank? Check out the 2012 Vanity Fair article called "Microsoft's Lost Decade".

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