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Updated Apr 14, 2021
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Gurdeep Singh Pall
52 Ratings
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"Smart people, not THAT Microsoft dependant" (in 14 reviews)
"good working environment : brand new office" (in 9 reviews)
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- Former Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
Strong financial backing by MSFT Great team spirit. Creative approaches to marketing
Cons
Satellite of of Redmond now that MSFT as integrated. Lost entrepreneurial edge.
- Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
Pros
big opportunity to integrate with Microsoft products.
Cons
late in the game and lost the momentum
- Current Employee★★★★★
Pros
Its such a friendly environment, the hours are, no offense, but really easy and relaxed, great pay, great bonuses, really practices social mobility and is an encouraging environment. I love it here.
Cons
Senior management, at least in the Seattle HQ, can be a pain in the behind, they are always on you about getting things done, not on time, but early, on time = late
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
Pros
Free Breakfast! Extremely flexible work schedule Impactful and important work on Lync and Skype. Really great People!
Cons
Contractors are physically separated from FTEs and 2nd class citizens unless you prove yourself. Early meetings do to half of the team in London vs. Redmond Reorg after Reorg after Reorg after Reorg [Hopefully settling down now]
Continue reading - Current Employee★★★★★
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Spacious office, nice perks, free lunch, kitchen
Cons
Microsoft is enforcing Skype to abandon its own choice of technologies and use Microsoft's instead, .net, Azure etc. As a result a lot of Microsoft employees join skype because they are familiar with these technologies. But they often carry the characteristics brewed in the infamous Microsoft employee rating system : instead of focusing on doing good work, they work to prove that they are better than their coworkers, and they carry over the Microsoft bureaucracy as well. More procedures are introduced, more people joined yet things are done slower, or are never done. It is striking that with so much competition on the market (Google hangout, whatsapp, just to name a few), the Skype client remains the same, except it now has ads.
- Current Employee, more than 1 year★★★★★
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Great benefits, excellent free lunch and snacks, bring your dog to work
Cons
Microsoft hasn't decided what they really want to do with Skype. Consequently, there are frequent strategy changes which leads to nonstop re-orgs. As a result, people are afraid to speak up and say what they really think for fear that they will be next. More time is spent preparing Powerpoint deck for senior leadership than doing actual work. If you're great at politics, you may enjoy it. If you hate politics you will be frustrated. Work-life balance is totally dependent on your manager.
Continue reading - Current Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
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Free snacks, drinks, lunch, parties
Cons
Worked with Software developers and testers who don't know what Unit tests, regression tests, etc. One Software Engineer in Test (SDET) asked me "What is unit test? do you mean uni test?" All their SDET does are using their finger or mouse to manually test Skype. No automated test. When developer wants to implement Unit Test or Automated UI test, they are not encouraged or supported, or discouraged. Because Dev Team and QA Team are competing with each other. They didn't want one another to be successful.
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 3 years★★★★★
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- Catered Lunches - Flexibility - Microsoft benefits incl. backup child care. - Good Paymaster
Cons
- Frequent (too) reorganizations - Office Politics. Too many cooks-in-kitchen - Low-morale among employees in general
Continue reading - Former Employee, more than 5 years★★★★★
Pros
Great working with friendly people focused on creating a cool product that helps people communicate with family and friends world wide.
Cons
The organization was working through a transition phase. A classic time when politics of a few degrades from progress of the whole.
- Former Employee★★★★★
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Great sales managers and fellow employees, very open to new ideas. As long as you are doing your job they will not micromanage you. It is a great place to work.
Cons
Compensation is the only downside to working there..
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