Company: Microsoft
Date: 2015-01-19
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

"Everyone is feeding from the dying corpse..."
Pros: Microsoft has hired, and still hires, some of the smartest people you will ever get to work with and there are few companies which operate at the same global scale. They pay well and benefits are (still) good by comparison and - due in large part to a lack of growth - work life balance is fairly easy to maintain.
Cons: The title of this review is a quote from a comment a senior director made to me when I was a couple of years into Microsoft and sadly it's an attitude that appears to prevail in almost every part of the business in my experience. Microsoft is also everything it is reputed to be in terms of political infighting and backstabbing, the majority of middle to senior management spend most of their time fighting one another to retain their status while caring less that the ship is slowly sinking...