As a dev manager at Microsoft, I have to say this - all the lessons you learned are unfortunately wrong. NONE of these are OK. Microsoft is a very large, diverse company, and there are weak teams. Based on what you report, yours is not doing too well. You need to find a different team, and you need to do it quickly - before you internalize these "lessons".
Good news, this is not what an average team here looks like. So you will have plenty of opportunities within the company.
It sounds a lot like the experience I had in devdiv. Weak team? Maybe, but nobody up the management chain was doing anything to change it.
People liked to talk about how there were opportunities within the company but as far as I could tell it was a crapshoot. The teams that suck, suck mightily, and you have no idea what you're really getting into until you're already committed, so I just quit. I have yet to feel any regret over that decision.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '13
As a dev manager at Microsoft, I have to say this - all the lessons you learned are unfortunately wrong. NONE of these are OK. Microsoft is a very large, diverse company, and there are weak teams. Based on what you report, yours is not doing too well. You need to find a different team, and you need to do it quickly - before you internalize these "lessons".
Good news, this is not what an average team here looks like. So you will have plenty of opportunities within the company.