Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-07-26
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Principle Service Engineering Manager
Pros: Broad / global / diverse job growth and opportunities
Amazing and engaging technologies to advance and work on
Strong peers, managers and coaching to grow, especially in early career
Great advancement opportunities
Satya's evolving culture is improving the overall company employee experience
Cons: Review model continues to pit people against one another.  Regardless of the HR rhetoric, there continues to be a forced distribution of rewards / impact, there is a fixed pool of dollars that can be distributed, and the lower side of the rewards scale is a linear one, and the upper rewards side the scale is an exponential one.  Therefore, to give one person high rewards, it requires putting 2-3 people in the lower rewards section.  This is enforced at level bands.

Getting a single zero reward review will end most careers, so it affects how people take risks, help others, etc.

There are still management layers stuck in the old behaviors that the culture is trying to dispel.  It's slow going.