Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-02-02
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

no longer a good place to work, even for fresh graduates
Pros: The enterprise business is strong, even with weakness in the PC market the past couple of quarters, it's hard to argue with the success of Windows 7 with over 400M licenses sold. As an employee, unless you are a bottom 20% performer, the new comp plan is a win. If you don't think so, then you don't really understand the change
Cons: Although there are talented people still there, a lot of talented folks have left MSFT senior leadership in the past 18 months or so - Liddell, Elop, Muglia, Bach, etc, etc. Although Elop was instrumental in getting the Nokia deal up and going