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dshacker commented on The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management danielsada.tech/blog/micr... · Posted by u/dshacker
You thought MS was "nice"? WTF were you smoking?
Comparatively to other companies, (amazon meta) I feel like Microsoft is "nicer"
dshacker commented on The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management danielsada.tech/blog/micr... · Posted by u/dshacker
It's a straightforward comparison in the area. Below Principal/Staff, Microsoft's stock awards are a (very unfunny) joke and their comp is pretty meh.
I left in 2018. I was 63 (first level senior) and had offers from Google and Meta for a downlevel (L4) at a 40% increase in total comp. The gap has closed slightly in the last 7 years but not much at those levels.
Same experience for me, I still remember at IC1 getting 7k stocks over 5 years as my "stock bonus" for the year. which meant getting 1 or 2 MSFT stock every 4 months :D
dshacker commented on The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management danielsada.tech/blog/micr... · Posted by u/dshacker
This overlooks the 2009 and 2014 layoffs and the notorious Mini-Microsoft blog, still up over 15 years later(!), where they were discussed. The notion of a "Microsoft Pact" is absolute baloney but, had there been one, it was broken back then, not anytime recent.
Right, but there is even an implicit pact, you get lower-than-market compensation but you get better benefits and long-term stability. At least that's the mental math you did when joining the company and comparing offers between employers.
dshacker commented on The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management danielsada.tech/blog/micr... · Posted by u/dshacker
I never took implicit “they pay less but it’s more chill” culture stories seriously. You can classify certain job functions this way more readily than company wide cultures.
Yeah, I was afraid of generalizing throughout the company. I think compared to other companies it seems to have a benefit of being more "nice". Maybe it's mostly targeted towards tech roles at that?
dshacker commented on Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git danielsada.tech/blog/carr... · Posted by u/dshacker
One thing I find annoying about these Perforce hate stories: yes it's awkward to branch in Perforce. It is also the case that there is no need to ever create a branch for feature development when you use Perforce. It's like complaining that it is hard to grate cheese with a trumpet. That just isn't applicable.
I mean yeah, in theory. I just found it really hard to work on multiple changes at a time vs git branches. Back in SD i used to have 2 or 3 machines + multiple VMs to be able to work on multiple things at a time. So I wouldn't say no need. In git I can do work, submit, switch, do work submit switch.
dshacker commented on Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git danielsada.tech/blog/carr... · Posted by u/dshacker
dshacker commented on Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Git danielsada.tech/blog/carr... · Posted by u/dshacker
This article makes out thousands of engineers that are good enough to qualify at Microsoft and work on Office but haven't used git yet? That sounds a bit overplayed tbh, if you haven't used git you must live under a rock. You can't use Source Depot at home.
Overall good story though
You’d be surprised at the amount of people at Microsoft that their entire career have been at Microsoft (pre-git-creation) that never used Git. Git is relatively new (2005) but source control systems are not.