Ask HN: What do people think of Microsoft?

Microsoft shut down its Research Lab in Silicon Valley. The staff included two Turing Award recipients.

The Computer Science Research community was unhappy: https://thmatters.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/letter-re-closing...

Microsoft responded with: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msr_er/archive/2014/10/21/harry-shum...

They lost out by not getting Alan Mulally and if your senior manger totally screws up a softball Q at an internal meeting like Mr Nadella did - you have messed up big time.

Board should have dumped him quickly over that- sorry to be brutal but at that level you have to be on your A game all the time.

They have abusive employment practices. My manager started looking for reasons to fire me, for example he scheduled a "stand up" at eight in the morning, in a conference room far from my office, with just one other person who had nothing to do with our project.

Got acquired, worked there a couple of years, didn't enjoy it. The performance review cycle is a train wreck.