I had always heard of Microsoft as a good "rest and vest" employer: lower pay than its competitors but also less work and less stress. Is the latter part not true? I've heard it compared to a place like Amazon that is high pay but high stress.
> lower pay than its competitors but also less work and less stress. Is the latter part not true?
Unless you are in Azure org (and maybe some other small specialized teams i am not aware of), it is often true.
Source: worked outside of Azure myself, it was great. WLB by default was nice and chill, but there was always plenty of room to push for more, if you wanted promotions/rewards/high-impact projects under your belt. People were amazing too all around. Had plenty of friends who worked in different orgs too. A couple of them transferred to Azure, and they quit a year or two later. They said that it felt like working for AWS in terms of how brutal it was (with one of them actually having used to work for AWS prior), which was night and day compared to their previous teams at MSFT.
