Company: Microsoft
Date: 2017-11-02
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Corporate Culture Spotty w CEO Transition; Beware of career/long-time Microsofties
Pros: Smart, ambitious, energetic, fast-moving people. Lots of opportunity to work with people  across the organization. Opportunities to have many different types of careers and roles within one company. In fact, they encourage you to move around which is fabulous. Great benefits and compensation package and on-campus amenities.
Cons: Career Microsoft people (10+ years) with slightly old mindset are prevalent all over the company. They tout wanting outside perspectives but stick to old ways. It could be that the new CEO Satya Nadella's philosophy and management style has not reached all organizations yet especially the sales & business side. Senior management imposes a lot of accountability without providing authority, which can be dangerous for those not politically-savvy (like the long-timers). The old comic strip about Microsoft's "organizational hierarchy" showing teams pointing guns at each other is now more understandable as I experienced it first-hand. Also, overly high reliance on vendors.