Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-08-22
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Started Great, Ended Dissapointed
Pros: Had varied positions over the years with a couple of outstanding managers.  Work/Life balance is good if you get in the right group with the right manager.  Pay is very good and benefits were good (although they were great when I started many years ago).
Cons: Doesn't advance women as quickly as men nor give them equal salary.  Say they're interested in your job development, but do little if nothing to promote you.  Lot's of nepotism and if you don't fit the mold, you won't advance quickly if at all.  We'll see if the new performance system is better than the last - but I have many friends that were laid off after many years of working there for no good reason - some of them had brilliant minds and were great workers and were laid off with poor performance evaluations even though their work was very good.