Company: Microsoft
Date: 2015-03-20
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Great as far as big companies go
OK to "meh" as far as big tech companies go
Probably better than working for Amazon
Pros: - Predictable schedule
- Pretty good pay
- Fairly good benefits
- smart engineers (if you find the right team)
- easy to transition to new areas of technology
Cons: - Big company problems--tough to quickly iterate on ideas and serve customers
- A lot of managers just are along for the ride...complete risk aversion.
- Not really a fun place to work.  It used to be...somewhat.  Sinofsky really started to clamp down on the budget in Win8, and it got smaller and smaller each year.  The new leadership has only continued this...there are rarely any moral events.  When they do have them, they're lame and maybe have some nibbles the admin bought at costco.  It feels like my Mom is putting on these moral events sometimes