I, personally, was defrauded out of about $40,000 in compensation, not counting the stock options that, under the law, I should have gotten, in my opinion. (There was a recent court case about this issue, so I should say "according to a recent interpretation of the law by a judge", it is being appealed, of course.)
What is the story with this case? I'd be interested in hearing about it and your experience. You can send it in a personal message if you doin't feel like broadcasting it.
To some extent, I blame myself- I had heard the stories, and I went there anyway. (Really funny how you haven't heard these stories. Maybe you don't know any ex-microserfs.) I really should have left right away.
Oh, I know a couple people that did work there, and have heard a lot of stories about it. But to be honest, a lot of it sounded like stories I have heard about other biggies like IBM, Sun and Apple. I think MS had a different culture because they were really tapping the 20-somethings for a lot of their workforce.
I heard a 2nd person account of a kid who worked at Netscape for a while and had some bizarre/scary stories about there too. I guess I'm glad I work for a small company! |
