Company: Microsoft
Date: 2012-08-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Great Company that lost its way, better to work in Redmond then Silicon Valley
Pros: Microsoft was an exciting and inspiring place to work.  The amount of creative ideas appearing everywhere was incredible and in the best of teams they encouraged excellence, team work, work-life balance and delivered excellent quality products.
Cons: Group by group differences - some groups were excellent to work in and some were painful.  If you find a good group it made all the difference.  Microsoft seemed to have a problem with non-Redmond teams - they tried to pay attention and support them but often felt like all events, opportunities were in Redmond and being outside of Redmond was a problem