Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-07-30
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Lethargic place to work.
Pros: Salary, bonuses, generous time-off policies, great benefits.
Cons: Grossly inefficient internal tools and practices. Layers of bureaucracy and a constant hunger games review cycle. Despite recent leadership changes and lip service well received by the media, the company has not really changed. Technical leaders of yesteryear are long-gone. A lot of people in "coast mode". There are more people than work, even after layoffs. Middle management stopped doing technical work long time ago.