Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-10-27
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Senior Software Engineer
Pros: My career was spent entirely within the Office organization so all comments here reflect that experience:
* Opportunity to work with a vast array of technologies and types of development (mobile, desktop, enterprise, services)
* Decent salary with great benefits
* Company is stable with tons of resources to take big risks
* Flexible work schedule
Cons: My career was spent entirely within the Office organization so all comments here reflect that experience:
* Depending on work from a partner team can be risky, especially if the partner team is in a different division. For example, if the other division has a substantial re-org, the work you were counting on may no longer be a priority.
* Performance assessment sometimes reduces to a nebulous "level of impact and influence"
* Shipped products will be deprecated or changed to something incompatible without a good path to an alternative. This is especially problematic for customers but can be demoralizing for employees as well.