Microsoft Corporation

The guys there were great. The females there thought they were better then everyone and had the least experience. Didnt like doing their job and always wanted others to do it for them.

I've worked a dozen contracts at Microsoft since 2006. Some gigs are amazing - fun, interesting, good times with great people, while other gigs are horror shows - it all comes down to who you are reporting to, the Microsoft FTE (Full Time Employee). Microsoft tolerates a few horrible managers because, I guess, they get results? They turn a profit? The bad managers treat contractors like furniture - we serve a purpose, we are tools to be used, but does anyone respect a chair or a coatrack? I know from personal experience that a few FTEs delete all messages from contractors without consideration. It's nearly impossible to do a great job when your leadership, and some team members do not consider you a team member. On the flip side, some of my best gigs were are Microsoft, one lasting almost 8 years. I am still friends with several former coworkers.

I have learned more here than all my previous working jobs with IT. I honed my communication, people skills and professionalism on the job with excellent mentor guidance. It has shown me what career development is and who I want to be in the future.

Outstanding place to work, always room for growth. If offered a career here, I would take it in a heartbeat.

Microsoft is not just a job it's a life style. They train their folks to become better human being. I have learned and improved my life with the help of my senior every step of the way. If you deliver (the Deliverables) because that is your job, the team will work with you with all other challenges you may face to clear the path for a reputable error free project delivery.

Well balanced and very supportive Professional and caring More socialized Best team Scheduled work

I have never had such great training in my life. I feel so much more confident about future positions thanks to Microsoft. It was a great environment with people that were very knowledgeable and always willing to answer questions. My manager Tom was a great leader and very fair with a plethora of knowledge.

Stay away worst place to work. Way to much stress. Min left I was good.so my advice work so where else

I worked at Microsoft for more than 15 years and had a mostly enjoyable time while there. My coworkers were passionate about the products we were delivering and fun to work with. I parted on good terms and would happily return to the company if the right opportunity presented itself.

I worked for one of Microsoft's subsidiaries for around a year. However the role and atmosphere didn't relate to my needs, sense-of-purpose or my strengths. I found myself dragged under the spotlight against my will wherever I went which felt extremely uncomfortable and consuming from within. The experience was a reflection of the personas that worked there. The subsidiary was eventually investigated due to irregularities discovered there a few years later. I hope this helps :)

Microsoft portrays this image of inclusion and in fact they do not invest in any of their employees, at least in the setting I was a part of for my tenure. Upper management has zero accountability while everyone else is micro managed and pigeonholed. Senior leadership is VERY out of touch with their frontline staff, so much so that it’s incredibly awkward to interact with them during visits.

I worked as a General Manager of an Education and Localization Division that supported Server products. Also supported thrid party publishing with Fortune 500 publishers that focused on creating Microsoft Technology learning and training. It was a very challenging time with tremendously exciting opportunities. Colleagues were very bright and innovative. Required significant self-management. International travel. Always good problems to resolve.

Microsoft is an ok place to work if you're a white, straight male. But if you're female or gay or not white, you'll need to work even harder for recognition and promotion. Your annual reviews will be affected by whether your manager "likes" you as a person, ignoring your technical competence. When I worked at MSN, my boss (a religious zealot) knowing I'm gay went as far as to say in my mid-year review that he recommends I work in "fast-foods" rather than continue at Microsoft. Yet still gave me an acceptable rating. When my test lead pointed this out to the Group Manager, the boss was transferred out, but my review remained on the books as-is. And so this hurt me for future growth and I was eventually laid off. I've had other managers at MS yell at me and at others, just because they could without any repercussions. And forget about Human Resources helping you. Their job at MS is to protect the bosses. I left MS in the big "talent extinction of 2009" and never looked back.

I last worked at Microsoft in 2009. I worked there a total of ten years between 1989 and 2009. I saw the last two years of their greatness and by 2008 they were a bad joke. Company encourages competitiveness between people who should be workers. The minimum work week is 60 hours; two consecutive 40 hour weeks and you will be terminated. Everyone lives in terror of the annual review and people disappear with no notice. The Microsoft of 1990 was greatness incarnate. We loved our work, we loved how we were treated. With the release of Windows 3 we were suddenly surrounded by org charts and went from a single weekly meeting to daily recurring meetings and concentration became difficult, then impossible. And it was not Ballmer' tenure that ended it all, it happened before that. "Satya's Vision" is fads and gimmicks, like firing the SDETs. Not recommended anymore

I have experienced blue badges (microsoft FTEs) threaten contract testers. They pay VERY little and most contract testers that work at microsoft have trouble paying rent and usually rent out single rooms just to stay in their profession. It can be a VERY painful experience to work contract QA at microsoft. I do NOT recommend it.

I was hired as a contractor under the impression the position was long termnonly to findnout i was only filling a gap until another contractor returned and the department was reorganized. Very dissappointing.