Company: Microsoft
Date: 2011-04-01
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Microsoft is a good place to work
Pros: Microsoft has great benefits, challenging work, intelligent people, great products and co-workers generally have a cooperative and supportive attitude within the legal department.
Cons: Compensation and advancement based a lot on political favoritism in some divisions.  Opportunities for advancement are few once you hit certain levels and business groups are very siloed in the way they work. Also, the forced stacked ranking process can be unfair and demoralizing, constant reorganizations are a waste of time and productivity.