Microsoft Reviews in Bangalore, India Area

Pros

Microsoft is the best place to work when you wanted to thrive in technology. Great work culture blended with professionals individuals..

Cons

Hectic work which makes difficult to manage work-life balance and night shifts which creates an imbalance in the life cycle ..

Pros

Amazing Environment to work
Helpful seniors (technical folks)
Access to Latest Products
Extensive training
Good Food
Located well withing city limits
Good pay

Cons

Night Shifts
Horrible Work Life balanace
Hardly can enjoy weekends
Sarcastic Management
Partiality towards a certain sector of people
Need to be very good with your Manager in order to grow
(boot licking rocks)
Even if Holidays are available Manager doesn't approve them stating support Business
Health Risk due to working in night shifts.
Too process oriented.
Work overload. Pulling extra hours.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide transparency in roles and growth
Need for collaboration with Product group
Provide many internships
Provide appropriate Work life balance measures for employees working night shifts

Pros

Very good place to work for. Good team. talented folks.

Cons

I really enjoy working at Microsoft

Advice to Senior Management

We should be less metric driven.

Pros

They are one of the best company in the world so you will have the opportunity to work with some of the best brain of the industry. Their pay and benefits are decent.

Cons

This is already a grown up place and so they did not need people for long run in bangalore setup. Every quarter they screw some people for no reason because work has not moved from US to bangalore as yet. If you allow me to say about MS bangalore culture then it is just big boss culture where people get nominated and evacuted from the house every quarter.

Advice to Senior Management

Please stop big boss culture and throw people in one short and allow others to nurture their career dream. Replacing one apple with orange or guava will not suffice your long term strategic goals here.

Pros

Good people, Product diversity, People centric

Cons

Traditional Corp environment
bureaucratic organization

Pros

Good pay cheque
Good environment
So much to learn

Cons

Graveyard Shift
Being on call for the weekend

Advice to Senior Management

Please look after work life balance of the people who are working in the night and graveyard shifts...

Pros

Great salary package, career growth plans

Cons

Very stressful at times and too many processes and project management

Advice to Senior Management

Allow less strict deadlines

Pros

- Brand name
- You get to play around with the latest Microsoft technologies
- Good campus
- Good food
- Access to all Microsoft products

Cons

The local management team in Microsoft GTSC will not think even once before ruining an employee's career, just to stick to its lame ego. If your manager does not want you to grow [because he/she is biased], you cannot grow no matter how great you perform and no matter how other people conceive you as a great performer. Basically, you are a puppet of your manager. Boot licking rocks!
Most of the managers I got to interact with do not even know what Microsoft is all about. They just want to show the number of $$ they save out of the allocated budget. They have made Microsoft India a breeding ground for politics, racism, and bribery. Yes, feel free to bribe your manager to get your promotion, role change, level change, department change, and whatever else you wish for.

Advice to Senior Management

The local management at Microsoft India has ruined the image of Microsoft Corp. as a great employer. Act before it's too late, but may be it already is.

Pros

people are hard workers. lots to learn from the environment

Cons

some people are extremely geekish
senior management do not help the interns

Pros

highly technical and motivated people
one can grow in diversivfied areas
excellent immediate people managers

Cons

Hire on perception
known devil is better than unknown anger policy in IJPs
slow growth
GTSC doesn't offer very good WLB due to the nature of support business

Advice to Senior Management

respect the skill set and not the perceptions