Company: Microsoft
Date: 2015-06-16
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former

Great company, work/life flexibility, but too much internal politics
Pros: Work from home is widely accepted (and productive). Productivity technology is off-the-charts. Comfortable travel policies. Smart, fun people to work with.
Cons: Extreme corporate politics. Too much focus on "visibility" at the expense of actual impact. A lot of corporate fat means there are way too many people trying to justify their roles by creating documents, which means lots of meaningless meetings and templates that you have to fill out. Culture of "lowering the bar" during target setting in order to meet/exceed Scorecard targets.