Company: Microsoft
Date: 2008-06-04
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

Only good for parents' bumper stickers "My child works for Microsoft"
Pros: Microsoft is this world's largest software development company, this looks good to future employeers.  Employees receive discounts when purchasing normally overpriced software.
Cons: You have to pay for food and snacks.  Not a comfortable work environment, they discourage peaceful and collaborative working.  They do not promote based on quality of work instead they promote based on popularity and their review system.  Hard work is NEVER rewarded here, instead employees are promoted when they do less work and leave early.  At Microsoft, if one person in management, regardless of their direct connection to you, doesn't like you, your next review will be damaged.  I've received only one 0.5% raise in nearly 5 years of service.  Microsoft has horrible retention of long term employees.  Management is free to ridicule employees.  They 'claim' raises and promotions can happen any time but I have never seen anyone recieve a promotion or raise outside of once a year.