Microsoft reviews about "leadership"

Exhausting leadership work culture Heavily metric driven

Sometimes the role lacked direction

Horizontal focus, more challenging over time as quota increases

One of the biggest issues is the management in the Dublin team. The environment feels extremely stressful, mainly due to a micromanagement culture that does not align with Microsoft’s core values or leadership style. Unfortunately, support from management was lacking. Team members often felt uncomfortable speaking up, asking questions, or sharing new ideas because feedback was usually met with aggressive pushback. Over time, this created a culture where people stopped contributing openly out of fear or frustration. The team itself has strong potential, but the current environment has negatively impacted morale. I have never experienced this type of management in my career before. I decided to leave after a short period, and I was not the only one. Another colleague also left shortly after joining, and several former teammates have since reached out to me for referrals. My advice would be to avoid this specific team until leadership and management practices improve.

When layoffs and reductions happen, there is basically no effort made by leadership to find alternate roles for people impacted by the reduction. Morale is suffering from the ongoing layoffs and uncertainty - people are on edge.

Leadership is technically weak in Bangalore. Especially program managers are getting promoted as engineering partners in Microsoft teams bangalore organisation especially in CMD organisation. This is degrading the quality of Microsoft. So if you're offered in this organisation better to keep away. All good projects are moving to Redmond due to these dummy people.