{"id":730,"date":"2006-09-26T14:32:54","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T21:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=730"},"modified":"2006-09-26T14:32:54","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T21:32:54","slug":"is-microsoft-consulting-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/is-microsoft-consulting-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Microsoft Consulting in Trouble?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Mini-Microsoft: Beyond Redmond Product Groups\" href=\"http:\/\/minimsft.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/beyond-redmond-product-groups.html\">Mini-Microsoft: Beyond Redmond Product Groups<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.platformonomics.com\/\">Charles Fitzgerald<\/a> just say MCS&#8230; (of course MCS is staffed by many ex-IBMers, so you may get some chocolate reflux&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Normally this kind of mud gets slung at IBM though: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m thinking specifically of MCS (Consulting Services) &#8211; 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.<\/p>\n<p>To prevent a mass exodus former peers say there&#8217;s an unwritten policy where there&#8217;s a 3-6 month period when a consultant CAN&#8217;T leave for another internal position, effectively locking them into the MCS org.<\/p>\n<p>I was lucky getting out but suffered an ass-whupping of a review. I&#8217;d never go back, and the only reason I stayed was the pride associated with working for Microsoft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>disclaimers: IBM SWG and STG are clients, but not BCS. Microsoft is an occasional client.<br \/>\ntags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Microsoft+Consulting\" rel=\"tag\">Microsoft Consulting<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/IBM\" rel=\"tag\">IBM<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">Microsoft<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-bM","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}