chenguo4 said:
halogamer1989 said:
Microsoft is a great company to work for with a great campus. That said, there are some occasional shortfalls and layoffs and the like but overall it is OK. Plus they have the great DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!!!!!!!! |
Did you read the article? They treat developers like shit. Dude literally said, "use them like pawns and throw them away."
And MS is not a great place to work for. In the 90s, MS would employ so many "temps" just so they don't have to pay benefits. That's why now a temp worker has to have benefits if they've been at a place for more than a year, because the US government finally stepped in and stopped MS's employment policies.
And their campus? The gyms and other stuff are mostly there as incentive to keep workers from going home, so they work more in the end.
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They have better benefits than Google. A Google employee told Eric Schmidt that M$ had better benefits, Schmidt told someone to see how much it would cost to match them, the person told Schmidt it would cost about $22 million, and Schmidt then told the employees that working for Google wasn't about the money, but about making a change. LOL. People that work at Google are usually paid less than Microsoft employees.
Emails from disgruntled Google employees.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/why-google-employees-quit/
"In one TGIF in Kirkland, an employee informed Eric Schmidt that
Microsoft’s benefits package was richer. He announced himself
genuinely surprised, which genuinely surprised me. Schmidt, in the
presence of witnesses, promised to bring the benefits to a par. He
consulted HR, and HR informed him that it’d cost Google 22 million a
year to do that. So he abandoned the promise and fell back on his
tired, familiar standby (”People don’t work at Google for the money.
They work at Google because they want to change the world!”). A
statement that always seemed to me a little Louis XIV coming from a
billionaire."
