Microsoft Software Engineer (Software Developer II) reviews

process some times can be painful

In 3 years I moved between 5 managers. Layoffs were happening, people were quitting left and right. Things did settle down a bit. What I saw was either a manager likes you or he doesn't. Managers don't check on code, its all about perception. I've seen Engineers work their way up with crappy code. The next guy in line has to clean up the mess. Fixing bugs doesn't earn you points at all. Senior Leadership ruled like dictators. If you break the dev build (not even prod build), you will be shamed, your checkin privileges are revoked. Abusive language is used at times. This meant the blame game is played. Private emails are forwarded around. Project Managers fresh out of schools are hired to boss you around. A dev only writes code was the mantra. In 3 years, I slowly felt the soul sucked out of me. They pay you well, but to them you are just a dev who will work 60-70 hours. You'd see people working weekends and late nights. It is highly frowned upon to only work 8 hours.