if your goal in life is to audit customers this maybe the place for you - Azure Data and AI Specialist Microsoft Employee Review

2.0
20 Jun 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

If in the right role with the right manager the interactions with customers and Microsoft leaders is great. Benefits are top notch and comparable with all of the big tech companies.

Cons

Stay away from the Data and AI roles if there is a SQL Server component to the job. You are expected to audit (through a cloud economics assessment) 20% of customers per year minimum. There are many terrible managers who have no view of their direct reports other than a cog in the wheel. Reviews and level of engagement has more to do with personal relationships and favoritism than actual results.

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5.0
7 Jul 2026
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Pros

Smart Engineers, good pay, perk+

Cons

Things can be move very slowly

4.0
28 Jan 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. If you love tech, this is a great place. No doubt you'll talk tech (mostly the MSFT stack) from enterprise to consumer - from PCs to phones to Xboxes - from datacenter to desktop. 2. What were GREAT benefits are now VERY GOOD (took a small step down) but still probably better than you'll find at 99% of large corporations. If you've got family - the value of the benefits is even higher. 401k match is nice. 3. Even with it's struggles MSFT is still a cash printing machine. This means if you can keep your nose clean and do reasonable work, you can have a stable job, pay your bills, feed your family, and not worry (too much) about layoffs. The stock you own likely won't tank, but probably won't go up much either. You'll get a bonus each year and some stock. It's a decent life if you aren't looking to light the world on fire.

Cons

Brand on Your Resume: After many years of losing market share and struggling to be at the front end of innovation and the fact that there's 90,000 employees, don't think MSFT is necessarily going to be attractive on your resume to more agile and smaller companies. Managing Your Career: Make you say this out loud so it registers - 90,000 employees work there. Double that for vendors. It is VERY hard to "stand out" and move up in the company. Don't expect your manager to be much of an advocate or enabler to help you meet your career goals - they are basically trying to survive the stack rank every year too. Not familiar with the stack rank? Check out the 2012 Vanity Fair article called "Microsoft's Lost Decade".

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