Microsoft reviews

- AI expense is too large - Employees are fearful getting laid off and frequent reorg - Layoff is irrelevant to performance - No free lunch - A opportunity is limited. It's a PM driven and top-down - Low annual stock compensation compared to peer big tech companies - Security device is a headache. Very slow to work with but the admin refuse to replace my 4+ old workstation due to the budget reason - Starting this year, your performance is compared strictly with peers. No longer. Engineers are getting stress out to increase the number of code review count and pull requests - Promo is politic. you have to convince other people like PM and staff engineer. make them like you regardless the complexity of project and impact

Firing culture, not as stable as it once used to be