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title: Is Microsoft Consulting in Trouble?
date: 2006-09-26T21:32:54Z
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[Mini-Microsoft: Beyond Redmond Product Groups](http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2006/09/beyond-redmond-product-groups.html "Mini-Microsoft: Beyond Redmond Product Groups")

I would love to hear from any enterprise customers about experiences, negative or positive, working with Microsoft Consulting. I am of course more than happy to make this an anonymous discussion. Meanwhile if you represent MCS I would appreciate any clarifying comments on this blog.

If you work at IBM you should read the Mini-Microsoft post linked to above, if only to sit back in your chair and indulge in some deep rich chocolately schadenfraude. Next time you get FUD from [Charles Fitzgerald](http://www.platformonomics.com/) just say MCS… (of course MCS is staffed by many ex-IBMers, so you may get some chocolate reflux…)

Normally this kind of mud gets slung at IBM though:

> I’m thinking specifically of MCS (Consulting Services) – over 1,200 U.S. and 2,000+ worldwide. I left the group because of extremely dysfunctional management, bullying, sleazy engagement managers, arrogant architects, brutal travel, and a law-firm mentality of billable utilization to the point of fraud.
> 
> To prevent a mass exodus former peers say there’s an unwritten policy where there’s a 3-6 month period when a consultant CAN’T leave for another internal position, effectively locking them into the MCS org.
> 
> I was lucky getting out but suffered an ass-whupping of a review. I’d never go back, and the only reason I stayed was the pride associated with working for Microsoft.

disclaimers: IBM SWG and STG are clients, but not BCS. Microsoft is an occasional client.
tags: [Microsoft Consulting](http://technorati.com/tag/Microsoft+Consulting), [IBM](http://technorati.com/tag/IBM), [Microsoft](http://technorati.com/tag/Microsoft)