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Ask HN: What do people think of Microsoft?
Just received an offer from Microsoft and was curious to know what everyone thought of it, especially in comparison to other big techs.
Particularly interested in thoughts on the Satya Nadella era.
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoThey have abusive employment practices. My manager started looking for reasons to fire me, for example he scheduled a "stand up" at eight in the morning, in a conference room far from my office, with just one other person who had nothing to do with our project.
- walshemj 11y agoThey lost out by not getting Alan Mulally and if your senior manger totally screws up a softball Q at an internal meeting like Mr Nadella did - you have messed up big time. Board should have dumped him quickly over that- sorry to be brutal but at that level you have to be on your A game all the time.
- RNeff 11y agoMicrosoft shut down its Research Lab in Silicon Valley. The staff included two Turing Award recipients. The Computer Science Research community was unhappy: https://thmatters.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/letter-re-closing-of-microsoft-research-silicon-valley/ https://thmatters.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/letter-re-closing... Microsoft responded with: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msr_er/archive/2014/10/21/harry-shum-open-letter-to-academic-research-community.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msr_er/archive/2014/10/21/harry-shum...
- jgeorge 11y agoGot acquired, worked there a couple of years, didn't enjoy it. The performance review cycle is a train wreck.