Comment Re:MS Employee's views (Score 1) 490
- It depends. Right now, I work about a 6 hour day since we are just about to ship and there isn't a lot of work for the developers since we are pretty locked down and aren't starting on next version stuff. In the middle of the cycle, I was probably working 10 hour days when I was very heads down implementing new features. During some serious bug crunching cycles, I probably worked around 9-10. I'd say I average 8 hours a day over the course of the year
- I work 5 days a week. I used to work a weekend day here or there but I found I've gotten better at using my time at work where I can keep my weekends 100% open to myself. Sometimes I need to log on to kick off a build, but I rarely spend much time over the weekend at work now.
- My options from 4 years ago are paying very nicely. They stopped giving options after that and now give stock grants...that's fully vested stock...so that is paying very nicely as well when you start stacking the grants I have received over the last 4 years and them vesting every August. I have nothing to complain about here.
- I work 5 days a week. I used to work a weekend day here or there but I found I've gotten better at using my time at work where I can keep my weekends 100% open to myself. Sometimes I need to log on to kick off a build, but I rarely spend much time over the weekend at work now.
- My options from 4 years ago are paying very nicely. They stopped giving options after that and now give stock grants...that's fully vested stock...so that is paying very nicely as well when you start stacking the grants I have received over the last 4 years and them vesting every August. I have nothing to complain about here.
