Company: Microsoft
Date: 2009-11-16
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Extremely process oriented
Pros: - smart people in lots of places
- very good benefits
- good salary
- career-wise it is clear where to go, not clear how to get there though
Cons: - senior leadership of the company does not seem to know how to move beyond Windows/Office
- lots of places in the company are very heavy on process and process is actually celebrated as a great thing sometimes to the point of losing sight that the only thing that matters is shipping great products.
- Microsoft bubble - very inward looking, most people have low awareness of what happens in the rest of the world in terms of new technologies, platforms, languages, innovations, etc. It is true that Microsoft creates its own gravity field but still. 
- Promotions especially at senior levels require a lot of political skill.