Highly Toxic Management in Australia - Mitarbeiter (anonym) bei Microsoft: Mitarbeiterbewertung

1.0
20. Okt. 2019
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Salary, felxibility to work from home

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The Australian sub has gone through a terrible change over 2019 and needs a good shake up, the culture is like IBM in the 90s or like a chapter written by Jack Welch. Back stabbing, lack of transparency, a lot of insecure people who throw others under a bus to save themselves and I am talking about the leadership teams. There is also an unrealistic expectation of travel, the company does not care about your personal life or your family despite saying they do, they act as though they own you. It feels very much like a cult and it is a very toxic environment in Australia at least. Lastly I want to highlight I saw a lot of poor treatment of people by management while HR turned a blind eye. Hiring of people in roles that were already filled by other people. Being told one day you are performing well, then the next day being pulled into HR meetings to say you were not meeting expectations. Roles are being downgraded by 2 levels forcing people to leave so management can hire their friends. Or worst yet people made redundant one week and two weeks later asked to come back. No one knows where they stand all while the numbers are crashing. Steer clear of this company until they clean up management.

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5.0
7. Juni 2026
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Interesting and varied work. Seasonality to the job allows for rest period

Kontras

Less stability than there used to be makes people afraid to take risks

4.0
28. Jan. 2013
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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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