Just received an offer from Microsoft and was curious to know what everyone thought of it, especially in comparison to other big techs.<p>Particularly interested in thoughts on the Satya Nadella era.
Microsoft shut down its Research Lab in Silicon Valley. The staff included two Turing Award recipients.<p>The Computer Science Research community was unhappy:
<a href="https://thmatters.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/letter-re-closing-of-microsoft-research-silicon-valley/" rel="nofollow">https://thmatters.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/letter-re-closing...</a><p>Microsoft responded with:
<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msr_er/archive/2014/10/21/harry-shum-open-letter-to-academic-research-community.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msr_er/archive/2014/10/21/harry-shum...</a>
They 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.<p>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.
They 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.