Company: Microsoft
Date: 2013-07-23
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Review System Review System
Pros: some great people to work with-passion for technology, broad opportunity across variety of spaces to work
Cons: over the past few years the zero sum, force ranked review system has so negatively impacted the culture -creating a generation of new employees who understand their success requires someone else's failure (and they now actively work toward that) -the brutal death march of 20% of those in the review models w/ 4 and 5 ratings unable to get hired for the most part and the frightening and Orwellian lack of complaint for the totally valid and recognized fear that raising this elephant in the room means being targeted as either victim or non-player.