Recruitment to Resignation: My Four Months at Microsoft

Certainly sounds like your manager had decided he did not like you/want you on his team, before you even started. Maybe he didn't like something about your resume. After moving across the country it seems like you could have tried harder to get into another team. Maybe in the new team you would have had the star treatment. Companies as big as Microsoft are not uniform, one team might have been a perfect fit and a great experience, another team could be a disaster.

If you are on the verge of resigning then you no longer have anything to lose and so you should have gone to your bosses boss. Point out what happened and why you are leaving. Doubt it would have solved the issue but it does mean that his behaviour was flagged up to another level. Otherwise there is no downside to his treating people the way he did.

Sounds like a terrible experience. It is probably best that you got out of the situation. That being said, waiting two weeks for him to invite you into his office for a one-on-one is crazy. You have to be direct with people and make yourself visible. Believe it or not, it is possible to do without 'driving over people'. Hang in there, you will bounce back.

There's some more information by the author in the reddit chat on the same topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mqngu/recruit...

Sounds like he dodged a bullet.