Company: Microsoft
Date: 2013-01-17
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

A company that still has a ton of potential.
Pros: Great opportunity to move to different groups and work on a variety of businesses, organizations and products.  Excellent benefits, until this year, and chance to get to know a lot of people.  Because the organization moves the needle so often, if you don't like what you are working on or who you're working with - wait 5 minutes!
Cons: 1. Engineering over indexed to Marketing
2. Siloed groups that compete with one another, and
3. Siloed individuals that compete with one another.

1. One of the teams I was on had a terrific balance between engineering and marketing, however, lately engineers are considered marketers and wow does that not work. There really needs to be a balance between them, but with one central team with a key decision maker.

2 and 3. There still exists the horrible core lack of cooperation, which will not change while the company insists on stack ranking (even though they swear it isnt') their employees.  It just will not happen.  The internal competition was something that existed from the early days and still manifests in a workforce that is solely focused on serving themselves, groups that see no value in working together but rather push their redundant product/service down the pipeline just 'because,' and thousands of individuals who are not well supervised, wasting money on initiatives that only meet their own specific committments.