Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-10-14
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

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Pros: Ability to work independently and maintain good work life balance varies, and will depend on how mature your manager is and his/her command of the respective domain knowledge. Also with constant re-orgs, it's hard to keep goals in sight.
Cons: constant reorgs - hard to keep track of people you might even work with a month ago. non-inclusive culture. Silo'd organizations prevents collaboration. FTEs are usually on edge around performance review time. FTE's/Teams from different groups/orgs won't provide assistance on projects unless they get approval from higher ups, or if there is political or personal gain.