Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-09-02
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Changing (not growing) pains
Pros: New CEO with responsible and grounded vision, tons of resources and intelligent people, no more forced distribution of employee rankings*, good benefits, good work/life balance, commute shuttle, lots of internal positions and opportunities.
Cons: Too many legacy policies and procedures, High margin mind set, lack of focus on controls and cost, myopic view of the world, too many rest and vest folks, too reactive to market dynamics.