Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-07-27
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Great place to work, but with some drawbacks
Pros: Big, resourceful, full of opportunities, strong brand and overall good products and a fairly good strategy for the future.
Cons: Size and number of layers hold the company back. In some departments politics is absolutely all that matters. The Redmond-centric culture has created a bubble, where insiders are mature professionals who can only thrive at Microsoft, and outsiders are left with a sense of operating in an artificial environment that has no real connection with the real world.