https://www.financialexpress.com/trending/its-scaring-me-microsoft-employee-of-7-years-says-current-work-culture-has-changed-for-the-worse/3982230/
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The company is in decline. It just doesn’t admit it yet.
Yep, culture has taken a turn for the worse. They talk about one year, one reward and how we're not ranked against others. That is total bullscheisse. If you give someone better than 100 rewards, you have to hit someone else to find the money to do that. It's a zero sum game. It's stacked ranking without calling it stacked ranking. Doing your day job no longer gets you to 100% rewards, the best you can hope for is 80%. It's now more important to do things OTHER than your day job if you want to get to 100% and do even more than that if you want to get over 100%. This has made MSFT as cutthroat internally as other owner companies.
If you're relatively happy where you are, don't join MSFT. It's dang near lord of the flies here.