Company: Microsoft
Date: 2015-11-02
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Multiple opportunties but very siloed by group
Pros: Microsoft still has an enormous enterprise customer business. They are also uniquely positioned for hybrid (cloud an on-premise) environments and solutions, which are strategic and high-value for enterprise customers. Their challenge looking forward is engaging the "born in the cloud" businesses where they are barely being considered. Microsoft has traditionally been a high cost, high functionality provider and the cloud IaaS environment does not have that tendency.
Cons: Legacy management still in place. Yes, SteveB is gone and some of the new kids (Satya, ScottGu) now have substantial scope, but middle to senior management is still littered with lifers who are slow to adapt.