Company: Microsoft
Date: 2015-02-20
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Rapid transformation for a large enterprise
Pros: There are many smart, amazingly talented, dedicated and hardworking people across the company.  The human knowledge base is one of Microsoft's primary assets, along with technologies.  Many great ideas and technologies are beginning to be effectively utilized, bringing product improvements, new innovations and a new level of customer awareness as the company transforms.  

Changing the culture of a large, global enterprise involves dealing with a high level of complexity - but the spirit of collaboration and cooperation has been adopted at the get work done level and is beginning to translate into better customer and partner experiences.
Cons: The new company values have not universally been adopted at the middle management level. Middle management bureaucracy, politics and overhead remain a roadblock to meaningful change. Rewards and recognition still come down to how well you market yourself - resulting from many years of the "internal competition" management approach that resulted in a inter-company and employee level dysfunction that has stifled innovation business evolution.