Company: Microsoft
Date: 2018-08-27
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Senior Product Marketing Manager
Pros: - Excellent heath care benefits
- Best 401K matching in the industry
- Global reach, impact
Cons: - Employee performance system doesn't work:  you get good 'ratings' only if you get along well with your manager and leadership regardless of your actual performance
- Bad managers: Still LOTS of managers that are jerks and bullies, and care less about their direct reports
- Signs of discrimination due to age: In recent years, it seems that the company is trying to get rid of employees who are considered "old" (e.g. in past 2 years, they have laid off 4 (~15% of total) people on my team and they were all over 40 years old).