Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-11-21
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current

With freedom come responsabilities
Pros: Compared with my previos jobs, mostly as a vendor, they really give  you a great deal of responsabilities. Especially now with Satya as CEO you really have the impression that things are starting to move fast after years of Ms  being at bottom of the queue of innovation and looking less dynamical than its  competitors. Looks like the era of the big mammoth of IE and the PC's business is over in favour of a more agile business model. Don't expect anyone to come to you asking to do you job, supervision is minimal, but they'll know how good or how bad you're doing, and they expect you to contribute towards ideas and project. I was actually surprised to see how easy it is to get any good idea implemented. Quite easy to see people working from home, even a couple of days per week. Very good benefits as well.
Cons: Not many, as you should dedicate a certain percentage of your time to projects other than your standard job, you may end up with more projects than what you can deal with and it is not uncommon to see people adding, almost daily, 30/60 minutes to their usual office hours (even though there's no requirement for it).