Microsoft reviews

Top-down approach to product design can stifle engineers. There is a lot of process around everything and it's hard to see how it makes us more productive. We stop coding nearly a year before our product ships - how can we ever be an agile company?

A lot was made of stock options as part of your compensation when I first started. Well, every one of my options has been seriously underwater for several years, basically worthless. Mid management churn led to me having 7 bosses over a period of 5 years, 6 of whom were a disaster and 4 who were brought in from outside in lieu of promoting anyone from my level. hard to build a rapport with your boss when you only work for them for 8 or 9 months. Only 2 years was the manager I started the year with the same one to do my performance review. Constant new programs and reorganizations aimed at getting the company re-energized just cause churn and confusion and most are scrapped within a year to make room for the new batch of bright ideas cooked up in Redmond. In all, my 'user experience' has seriously deteriorated over the past 8 years.