Pros
- Multicultural and diverse team - Fairly young and mixed team - Hybrid working
Cons
If you are working on the Microsoft account, you will be stressing and the workload you receive is not worth the salary that you'll be getting. Although you'll be working at the Microsoft Office, they will treat you like a second class employee because your badge is orange and you're a vendor instead of it being blue. If you are part of an underrepresented group you are basically facing double discrimination. The pay & benefits are not worth the amount of work you will be doing. On calls, people will dismiss whatever you say a lot fo the time and treat you different because your email address doesn't look the same as theirs even though your job is just as important as theirs. The 'client' will always push random agendas and workload onto you although the team is providing them with exceptional work and you will also be forced and scheduled into the office at random days for no reason and the manager will guilt trip you into going in on days you weren't meant to be scheduled in. They are trying to force 'collaboration' between you and the client, however once you're in the office you will all hardly interact with each other or it gets too noisy that you can't work. Although your region is probably the best in the company, there is no HR department, your manager will never take your feedback on board and always go back to 'it's what the company/client wants'. No progression and constant updates/changes in processes without being informed about anything. Also one of the 'clients' will constantly micro-manage your work and you can still get in trouble even though you are following what they told you to do. There is no career progression at all, if you take the role you'll be stuck there and yu won't get any pay rise or promotion until you find a new job. You will be engrained into the Microsoft culture, however you will stll be treated as a second class citizen and can't avail to many of their benefits or go to their events. It's literally always the employee's vs management. Made the most genuine friendships and met amazing people within the company, however the issue always falls back on management. My advice? Don't even bother working here for the 'experience' the job market is terrible but this one isn't worth stressing and not having work-life balance anymore.
