Poor work life balance in D365 for Marketing Prague - Software Engineer Microsoft Employee Review

3.0
28 July 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Lots of resources to learn and progress in your professional career. Lots of projects which that allow virtually anyone to find something that the like to do.

Cons

The D365 for Marketing organization is run like a startup. High level managers openly embrace it and say that it is a good thing that we are driven by urgency. Work life balance is bad in many levels. Starting from having calls after your EOD with your US buddies, to having to work at night or weekends as this is what everybody else does. This means that if you do not do it you are seen as an underperformer. There is virtually no time for formal training. Even though management gives the official message that it is encouraged, in the day-to-day pressure to deliver tasks is so high that telling your manager that you want to do a soft-skills training would sound like a joke and you would be seen as an irresponsible person. This is evident when you are told "Please feel free to do the training, just bear in mind that you are a Senior Engineer and we have lots of work to do". And the worst sadly, is that these situations are not specific to any particular time (e.g. before a product release), but they sustain in time. It is very usual to hear people complaining about the same off the record.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
28 Jan 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.

Cons

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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