Beware of Layoffs - Marketing Director bei Microsoft: Mitarbeiterbewertung

2,0
1. Sep. 2015
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I think it is a good place for engineers. Lots of learning opportunities,access to tools and technologies, and internal discussion forums to get help on any topic.

Kontras

Layoffs are getting out of control, especially in the field offices. Every summer they release a new "blueprint" of how many people each sub is aloud to have and what the org chart has to look like exactly. If someone in corp decides that job you are doing is not needed, everyone in each country that does that job is let go. Every year about 10% of my colleagues are let go and I had to let go my own direct reports. This month I got the notice that my role is not in the new blueprint and I have a few weeks to find a new job. I am working in a subsidiary office and I don't get any relocation assistance to return home. I even have to pay my own way to do interviews in Seattle to find my next job. (I can do the interviews over the phone, but that would put me at too much at a disadvantage.) HR does not provide any extra assistance to help me find a new job, I am totally on my own.

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5,0
6. Juli 2026
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Great Company to work with.

Kontras

Nothing I can think off

4,0
28. Jän. 2013
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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.

Kontras

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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