Company has lost its moral compass - General Manager Microsoft Employee Review

1.0
Sep 26, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- Good benefits and company match for donations - Solid products with Azure and Office 365

Cons

- The company no longer values employees who have climbed the ranks with impressive track records are now the first to be fired for "performance" as they have the most unvested RSUs - Gaslighting of employees is now approved by HR and management will say anything to remove teammates that don't just say "yes" - AI is not replacing any jobs, but the internal mantra was "do more with less," but now the positioning is "do more and make less $" as all RIFed roles are being down-leveled 2 and sometimes 3 levels. - I haven't spoken with anyone in the last year who its enjoying their job, as they see how many great employees who have been walked out the door and company culture is in the dumps. - Satya Nadella used to be about empathy, growth mindset, model, coach and caring for employees, but those are all now empty promises, and leadership are only interesting in enriching themselves at the top levels. - The stack ranking of the Steve Ballmer days is now back in 2025 and the new COO from GE is leading the charge to move back to the "Rank and Yank" culture of GE that was touted by Jack Welch, and disproven to work.

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5.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

Love it you are surrounded with smart people and complex problem to solve

Cons

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4.0
Jan 28, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

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.

Cons

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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