I had the best work environment, awesome co-workers, friends and managers. Its not just what i felt about my work place, you take reviews about me from anyone in my past work place and you will find exactly what i am talking here and may be even more appraisal for me.
So the better question would be- With everything fantastic in my work place, why am looking for another work place.With everything nice while working in corporate,the only concern i had was my health and weight gain. I had gained 15kgs in last 6 years and I was trying different products, food, pills and weight loss methods to gain the control back over my weight. However everything would work for a while but at the end of the year the weight would be same or little more. I already had noticed the failure loop and my confidence was going down.Then i gave another chance to a new method which I felt right with Integrative Nutrition. My teachers and mentors started guiding me in my health journey. In one year, I got rid of my age old habits like- Alcohol, smoking, Cold drinks, Tea/Coffee, Fried snacks, Cakes, Sweets, late night snacks…so on, started exercising, eating right, and sleeping well which helped me reduce 17kgs in ~8 months which I never got back. All these life style habit change and food habits inclusion happened when I was working 9-5 job. I found the simplicity of the life style and food habits integration in a corporate working life very easy. I always love simple things and that is what I discove
ProsEverything is positive about Health!
ConsYou have to be consistent in the beginning to take control.
Delivery & BI Manager with MCP & ITIL Foundation Certified professional with 8+ years experience
1. Analyze the business scenarios to translate them into clear compelling business requirements, define standards & processes around BI assets, and partner with delivery and engineering teams
2. Exposure in establishing a fact-based governance model to aid decisions around BI programs & projects, responsible for BI architecture and strategy, aligning investments to the Enterprise Services business capabilities in partnership with Services LOB capability owners, capability architects, field operations, field business excellence teams and IT delivery.
3. Proven capabilities in optimizing BI portfolio, manage multi-year roadmaps, conceptualize BI architecture and design, lead cross functional teams with the LOB SME's to analyze and rationalize business needs.
4. Extensive experience in driving BI initiatives, requirements, governance, planning, processes, solution design, architecture, and technologies that deliver high visibility business intelligence solutions for the Enterprise Services business
5. Devised BI Adoption Strategies on behalf of the subsidiaries and successfully running it for nearly a year. Helped many ISVs to build BI practice and create BI offerings.
6. Hands on experience of managing delivery of Microsoft Partner Consulting with key focus on exceeding all delivery & people metrics along with Business Development.
• Involved in employee engagement activities for over 100 employees
• Understood the rhythm of the business (ROB) and contributed to planning discussions and anticipate business needs and challenges.
• Identify the training requirements for the team and co-ordinate trainings
• Headcount management by maintaining the positions allotted and capacity planning.
• Work with management and stakeholders to identify, develop and communicate priorities to drive outcomes to completion
• Use knowledge of organizational and corporate HR policies and procedures and act as a resource to communicate, educate, and drive consistency across the team.
• Manage and onboard contingent business support staff.
• Co-ordinate the entry and exit formalities for the employee
• Involved in budget processes, produce reports, planning, forecast, managing and tracking, operating expenses for the team
• Understands and recognizes the repercussions of non-compliance and raises concerns when necessary. Ensures compliance when working with vendors and partners.
• Actively participates in the discipline community, and documents and shares best practices to increase efficiency in business groups
ProsTransport, Fitness reimbursement and other facilities
Microsoft is a great employer when it comes to facilities, compensation and benefits. It has added great value for me to have been a part of the organization for more than 2 years.
When it comes to operations, it is a highly demanding and results focused environment. HR Intranet, internal HR policies and other HR related information is vast and could be found on various websites within the Microsoft Web. This at times is challenging for a quick view while we are online with the employee trying to resolve their queries.
Work Life balance depends on which project you are as the HR Ops Associates may not have complete control on certain processes and may need to go out of their normal way to fetch information and resolve.
Overall, it is a win win situation if you are highly skilled professional and open to challenges at every point.
ProsBrand, Compensation and Benefits.
ConsLong Hours at work and insufficient information on HR Intranet.
I learn from there That How to Manage Office Curriculum and Workplace and self improvement and
Microsoft Imagine Academy provides industry-recognised technology skills, education, and certifications students need to succeed.
Microsoft Imagine Academy provides up-to-date curricula and resources to train and certify students and educators on Microsoft products and technologies. Students gain valuable skills for college and a career that will help them succeed in an increasingly digital global economy across these four areas:
By earning a Microsoft Certification, students will:
Demonstrate their skills on the latest technologies
Prove they have a firm grasp and increased confidence in their skills
Achieve success in pursuit of higher education or a career
Gain recognition among peers and employers and a distinct edge in the competitive job market
Chart a career development path for ongoing Microsoft skills
Micrososft usually hire to fire them in next couple of years so as to retain their old team.They have culture that manager shall need to give the stack ranking to HR for their team.Most of times, the lowest one will be the new joinee in the team.It is clearly understable that how one guy who joined whithin a year will surpass the existing employess who has worked for more than 10 years.
So to retain the existing folks....they will hire and keep the new joinee as bottom in ranking.They will not consider the hard work/ effort and value added during the one year.Because they will hire to fire next apprisal to retain the other team members.
Hence if you are new to any team...please be careful...
if your team has multiple members of new joinees, then your risk may be bit less.
if you are the only one hired and all other guys are old folks.Then you are scapegoat. becareful.
Prosstock bonus on hire, facilities
Conshire to fire. new joinees are at big risk, job security
Dynamic professional offering rich experience as a Versatile Solution Architect for various oracle products in hybrid cloud
Computing environment. Responsible for end to end transition project management, including scope, estimates,
schedule and risks. Producing detailed project plans to manage interdependencies and ensuring strict change control to
manage deviations. Managing 24*7 Oracle Core/Apps DBA, encompassing planning, design, implementation,
configuration, upgradation and support on cloud environment.
Responsible for planning for Off-shore Service Transition. Laying communication and support bridge model with Onsite
Technical & functional team in delivering support to the clients. Extensively equipped with technical concepts, planning
and tracking, managing project inter-dependencies, and managing critical applications.
Joyful atmosphere and great work location with all the recreation activities on the floor.
It was a great experience working in Microsoft campus, A typical day starts sharp at 9:30 and over the course it had always been a fun filled atmosphere. Not only the great challenging work and smart people to work with, there were many indoor games on the floor. My favorite being -Foosball. During my time off from work, entire team used to go around the floor and look for Foosball, Snooker, TT tables to be empty.
Hardest part during this period was those long lasting work hours, late night hours, but never felt a pinch of stressful feeling as it was always fun working in campus even during that odd hours.
Great learning, great entertainment,glad I had an opportunity to work in the campus
Worklife balance is maintained. No restrictions in, in time or out time as long as we conduct discipline in the work by maintaining time, providing solutions, keep no task pending, escalation free.
Fun to work as the staff and managers maintain no heirarchy.
Hardest part of the job is to be away from work.
Most enjoyable part of the job is the team work, understanding and fun that goes in.
Learning has been great. As there is nothing right or wrong when you showcase something new of what you do. There is lot of motivation which provides more enthusiasm to do more.
With cooperative co-workers around its fun to work at Microsoft.
Every work place has its own hindrances and hurdles but it can be ignored as we work as a family.
Proswe have lot of lunch and dinner outings, freebies, motivation
Good opportunities for advancement and long hours of work.
A typical day at work would begin with stand up calls with the on shore and off shore team discussing status and the developers giving out their plan of the day. Microsoft is about all brilliant minds working together generating great ideas everyday. The beautiful and lavish campus has all the games you can name it. The gifts and gadgets you get every year is remarkable. The hardest part of the job is long hours you spend at work. The co-workers are equally smart and hardworking so to some extent there is this rat race to get better and do more. In nut shell Lots of opportunities and lots of learning and lots of gifts and lot and lots of work.
ProsSalary Benifits, Lot of gifts and new gadgets, Lot of opportunities to learn and advancement
● Dataload, management and upload of Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) data for the 7 Australian States.
● Expertise in architecture, configuration and deployment of ePASS version 2.14.x/2.16.x/4.1.x/4.2.x and finally 6.x.x
● Point of contact for initial diagnosis of problems, for a system or sub-system or apply known solutions, including documenting problems, progress checking, and escalation to ensure resolution discussion with Bravura vendor, Business Team and off-shore development team.
● Follow-up in relation to improvement with ePASS response times, performance resolution and troubleshooting aspects within tomcat web tier/JBOSS and Ant application tier/MS SQL Server database tier and/or integrated ComSAS IBM DB2/Capital Oracle projects.
● Key contributor for providing sampled scrambled data to Bravura for the ePASS versions (2.14.x/2.16.x/4.1.x/4.2.x and finally 6.x.x) upgrades and then architecting the infrastructure, deploying the military and civilian super funds onto the new hardware infrastructure.
● Managing activities like building new database environments for applications, installing SQL related software like ePASS, RazorSQL, Helpmaster Pro, MiAudio, Zeacom & SQL Server 2012
● Mentoring a team of 6-10 Junior DBAs in data modelling, design and cost-effective scripting so as to be propagated to Test, UAT and Production environment
● Creating databases for new applications; setting up recovery and DR processes and configuring Log shipping. Imp
A great place to learn and grow in software development
A typical day started off with reviewing, sorting, and when needed - respond to over-night emails. In addition to team and company correspondence, they also consisted of automation test results and testing done over-seas. Next, I would review my bugs in the database to see what needed follow-up on for that day. In my last position, we would have a daily scrum to sync up with all our teammates on where we all were in our tasks and goals for the project. This is also where we would make agile decisions on our workforce and re-assign folks or create new tasks to help keep the project on track for its determined release date.
Before working at Microsoft, I was a video editor and award winning 3D animator. However, I didn't know very much about software development - just how to manipulate it to get my work done. Working at Microsoft, I learned on the job about how to perform software testing - specifically manual UI. In addition, I picked up a lot of general information on the use of Microsoft products and devices. I also learned a lot about corporate networking. Because I served on many teams, I got to understand on a deep level the following products: My Sync II, Point of Sale OS, Hyper-V, Zune, IE, and CE OS and many portable devices over the years.
Microsoft is a big company, so my experience won't represent the company so much as just a small part of it that I worked with. My managers were all great and very helpful. Because I started after the company had matured, the man
ProsThe people, flexible work hours, remote from home work days, free sodas, coffee, and tea
ConsInconsistent work - as a contractor the waits between jobs can be too long
Over the time i have worked at microsoft, it was an absolutely dream come true to be given the opportunity to work there. However, the dream came to an end as the shine wore off very quickly.
Good Stuff:-
Working with various teams is extremely fun. There is lots of great productivity and collaboration across the team and there is lots of learning that becomes available to you.
Microsoft offers lots of opportunity for graduates and learning. Politics does not really affect you.
Networking and relationship - there is really great work/life balance if you work hard. Building networks and relationships is really easy and everyone is made to feel welcome from the start regardless of job title and whether they are US, UK, Europe, Aus, NZ based. There are lots of people with talent and skills and that make it really interesting place to work.
Advocate in Charity - If your interests gage into charity work this is an excellent workplace for you to join. There have been times where i get to spend 2 days paid doing charity work for schools, charities and other companies in not for profit.
Bad Stuff:-
Within 3 months of starting, it felt like i was a number in a team and driven to help microsoft in sales more than evangelise in the technology. Their was a huge emphasis on license management more than product and when discussing product it was to help drive sales of office 365 and add ons. Even though sales was not my thing.
PiP (Personal Improvement Perfor
ProsSubsidised Lunches
ConsVery Long Hours, Back Stabbing, Unknown who to trust, Poor Management, Feeling like a number, Superficial PIP expectations
4.0
Hardware Design Engineer | Redmond, WA | 13 May 2019
Your success at Microsoft depends largely on the group you're in...
With the incredibly large and diverse amount of jobs at Microsoft, any one review is going to paint a pretty small picture of the whole company. Your success at Microsoft, while largely up to you, is also VERY much bound to the group you're working in. For example, the Windows group periodically turns into a dumpster fire where it must certainly be the worst place on Earth to work. Layoff's, lack of promotions, terrible work-life balance, etc... then the re-org comes, people get jumbled around, new people get hired and things stabilize for a year or two. Then decay starts and the process repeats. I've had 20 years to observe the cyclical nature of hire & fire at Microsoft, and there was also a time when I myself subscribed to 70 hour work week...but I wasn't rewarded for that additional effort, and in those 20 years I can honestly say that it's entirely up to you to manage your work-life balance, and pull yourself out of unsavory situations. There's so many groups to work in at Microsoft that it can be detrimental to your soul and your career to stay parked in once place too long. 15 years in Windows was about 13 years too long, and I definitely have regrets. The benefits have gone down-hill over the years, some of that was courtesy of ObamaCare. Prior to Obama, Microsoft's Healthcare was absolutely top-notch. Now, it's good but not anywhere near as great as it once was. Same for the company store benefits... they used to be spectacular, now they're mediocre. I of
ProsLOTS of resources and smart people here - if you can find them!
ConsCompany size, changing politics, changing policies, poor communications unless something bad has happened...
3.0
Senior Program Manager | Redmond, WA | 17 Oct 2019
The continual reorganizations are very taxing on organizations and individuals.
The churn from reorganizations makes team and relational cohesiveness elusive, sapping the synergies of orgs and individuals. It's like building a house and constantly having all the subs suddenly change multiple times. The "new team" now has to figure out what was done, where the pipes and wires were laid, and frequently either busts into the walls to redo what was already done, or suddenly finds a short circuit due to mistakingly cutting into an wire or pipe, or has vermin infesting the structure because holes were left gaping because the person who was formerly working on structure was moved to a new job. Moreover, I have frequently observed that annual mandated quotas of 5-10% "poor performance" rating system forces out amazing colleagues, not because of poor performance, but due to meeting arbitrary quotas. Ironically, the horrible impact to the churn mentioned above, plus the stress on staff, far exceed any theoretical benefit of "culling the poor performers." (Yes, there are sometimes bonafide poor performers, but 5-10% a year? What changed? MS hired them believing they were great. So did really 5-10% suddenly become bad performers each year, or is there something endemic with the organization that could be at play here? How much better would it be to really invest in those people assets to either get them the skills needed or help them find a great match for their skills and experience in another group?) I have had amazing bosses and brilliant colleagues sudden
ProsSmart colleagues, great benefits, challenging work, telecommuting
ConsRe-org churn, managers who are not good people managers, annual quota firing policy
Still great place to work, but not what it used to be
I am on my second tour of duty at Microsoft. I was there in the 90's when Bill Gates was still CEO, and I came back in 2010 when Steve B was still here and Satya has since taken over.
It is still a great place to work with respect to learning about, and implementing, new technology. They also provide many opportunities to get involved in side-projects to expand your exposure to new technology. There is also AMPLE opportunity to get career and technical mentoring there.
They still have the **BEST** employee benefits compared to anywhere in the US. I would still recommend MSFT to college graduates looking for initial technical skill development so they can move on to something else. Compensation has never been stellar at MSFT - but its good enough. Work/Life balance has improved greatly since the 90's.
However, I would no longer recommend it as a place to climb the ladder or get job advancement. MSFT has taken more to hiring people from the outside, and preserving their middle-management 'in-crowd' by continually providing lateral transfers to that group in order to maintain the careers of the anointed few. They have also implemented regional hiring practices to the detriment of many. Thus, even though you may do great promotion-worthy work in Redmond, WA, you will not get the job if the company decides that the job has to be filled in Las Colinas, TX!
Sadly their culture of late has gone off the deep end injecting west-coast political-correctness into the
ProsFree coffee and soft drinks, GREAT health care benefits, Excellent tech skill development opportunities
ConsNot a great culture - too much political correctness; not much opportunity to climb the ladder
I largely worked remotely, and a typical day for me involved a lot of emails, several meetings in the afternoon (all attended virtually via Lync), and the occasional IM. When not wallowing in administrivia, I spent a lot of time thinking about and documenting ways we could do things better, and then working through others to put the changes in place.
Microsoft really matured me as an employee, as I learned to work at a level of professionalism that I had not before. It wasn't enough to be smart; I also had to be articulate and persuasive; I had to be strategic and understand how my work not only solved the problem at hand but set us up for future success.
Generally, I found management to be supportive. They existed to facilitate my work, trusting me to do the right thing, and working to cut down obstacles or provide air cover so that I could deliver my work.
I had some of the best co-workers here that I've had anywhere, and I consider them friends more than co-workers. At a company as large as Microsoft, there is a mix of personalities, and occasionally I'd run into that other employee who rubbed me the wrong way, but I figure that I've probably got my own quirks that bug people, too. Largely, though, I found people to be professional and smart, but also fun and friendly.
For me, there were a few challenges that seem intrinsic to the company. First, I found it to be very political in nature. Recent changes (e.g. One Microsoft) may gradually change that, but there
ProsGood coworkers, cutting-edge tech, professional growth
ConsPolitical landscape, Redmond-centric
2.0
User Experience Designer | Redmond, WA | 3 Jul 2017
The best day at Microsoft was my first day; the second best day was my last.
As a contractor, I never had a 'steady' project or 'steady' work; I was always passed around to various designers to 'assist' and 'help' on whatever they were working on.
The worst experience I had on the team was with a particular person who was very unprofessional by saying aggressive and simply untrue things about me in meetings, and only when I wasn't around. Without going into detail, Microsoft is a company that allows this kind of conduct, without consequence or repercussion. I professionally tried to resolve the matter personally with the person, but I was essentially 'put back in my place.'
However the best project I worked on was when I saw a project that needed some TLC, so I talked to my manager's manager and told him what I saw and how I believed I could contribute, and he gave me a significant role on the project; however, temporarily. In this project I was a true, contributing member of the team—attending meetings, making informed design decisions—and my word was trusted and valued. All-around I was seen as a top-performer and integral part of the project. Even after the product shipped I was told the product wouldn't have been what it was without me.
When I was taken off the project by my manager, I was back on the same grind where my skills were nowhere near close to being utilized to my potential.
In the following months, sometimes there would be days...weeks...on end where I would interface with no one. My manager was absent 90% of the time, and
ProsGood work/life balance, open office
ConsNo benefits, zero office culture, poor communication, no consequences for unprofessional behavior by senior/upper-level management
A great company to work for with great opportunities and benefits but some work with culture
Working at Microsoft is both fun and exciting. I loved being surrounded by a variety of hardware and software that was on the cutting edge of technology. The company does a great job of introducing new devices and software that will bring in customer, raise revenue as well as intrigue and have the employees engaged. The stores always have a beautiful and engaging design that allow for a fresh experience whether you work there or are visiting for the first time. The systems that are used at Microsoft are still very rudimentary and are still being worked on constantly. They are introducing new features to ensure that Microsoft employees receive the support and resources they need to make the Stores the best experience possible. Having said that the lack of established systems and culture leave a lot of room for long transaction times and awkward interactions where the system does not work the best for certain situations. As a Consumer Service Advisor, i found i truly enjoyed the details of my job and being able to troubleshoot different issues and hardware, however the check in process and resources used to complete services was all third party software and a very amateur process. Charging customers $149 for an Assure bundle that truly did not give them any true assurance that we can indeed provide a service that they cannot just do themselves. The environment of constantly being measured against others by sales numbers rather than effectiveness as a technician created somewhat
Business Impact and Personal grow in the past 11 years at Microsoft
• With a customer satisfaction rate of over %85 (over the average) I helped my team and CSS to deliver great customer support. Significant improvement in the CSS survey results of support partners and customers
• SLA requirements improved and resolved for the business
• Providing support service to Microsoft Premier Customers to prevent interruption in LOB Applications
• Critsit Management for Microsoft Premier Customers
• Helped to support partners to build a market resolving technical issues
• Developed a high motivation in my Team for great customer support
• Showed ordinary commitment to the Business our Customer and colleagues
• Transferred knowledge to Team Members and Customers
• Mentored the new hires to meet the get-to-green plan for the business
• Take smart risks and accept the consequences that go with them
• Focus intensely on the important tasks at hand
• Look beyond the obvious to uncover critical issues
• Use strategic and creative thinking to solve difficult and persistent problems
• Take ownership or stewardship roles in company-wide strategic initiatives
• Put in the hours necessary to get the job done right
• Motivate self and others during times of resistance or setbacks
• Focus on critical projects with high returns
• Do not falter when difficulties arise
• Look for demanding projects that stretch abilities and foster growth
• Inspire others with a sense of
Questions And Answers about Microsoft
What are eligibility to work with company..?
Asked 13 Jun 2017
B. Sc(cs) & b.ed.and teaching & feald work exeperiunce
Answered 3 Aug 2020
B. Sc(cs) & b.ed.and teaching & feald work exeperiunce
Answered 3 Aug 2020
How are the working hours at Microsoft?
Asked 21 Feb 2017
I good working company microsoft I'm 7day work 10 clock
Answered 28 Jul 2018
I am interested job
Answered 28 Jul 2018
What is the company culture at Microsoft?
Asked 25 Mar 2017
Very flexible And good work
Answered 26 Jun 2020
Its a truly Reaputet company
Answered 16 Sept 2019
What would you suggest Microsoft management do to prevent others from leaving?
Asked 23 Mar 2017
Teach me work: Microsoft Management System but in good company
Answered 10 Dec 2018
Start working on futuristic tech and change fast. In this world of agile Microsoft as a company is really slow in adapting its own latest tech
Answered 27 Oct 2018
What is Microsoft sick leave policy? How many sick days do you get per year?
