Company: Microsoft
Date: 2020-10-16
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Interesting work but too much bureaucracy and politics in legal department.
Pros: Interesting work, novel issues, working at the intersection of law, business, and tech.
Cons: Management doesn't always trust or empower their employees. Experience, inside and/or outside, is downplayed or ignored by "lifer" managers. What some of these lifers have contributed or continue to contribute to justify their roles is not clear. Politics clearly play a role in promotions and role assignment - they follow the form of the process over embracing the substance of the process.