Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-10-22
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Employee empowerment at its best
Pros: Microsoft provides the challenge. It's up to you to deliver upon it. An ideal company for self-starters that love to go for it.
The company typically attracts clever individuals, which provides a challenging environment.
Cons: Work-life balance is terrible. Microsoft eats up all your energy.
The bar is raised very high. You have to give all you get to make it happen. The impact on the familly is not ideal.
Once people stay to long at Microsoft they tend to loose touch with reality. It's all about the Microsoft way and no longer about how customers think.