Company: Microsoft
Date: 2017-02-09
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Extremely political to the point that it is severely hampering business potential
Pros: -work life balance
-good pay
-brand 
-SOME good, smart people
-learning opportunities
Cons: -some pretty crazy managers
-if you are friends with the SLT of your group, you are promoted 
-managers with very little proven merit 
-politics are literally insane. You will spend nearly 2/3 of your time playing the internal game. Your internal brand exceeds the importance of your external (client brand). The same people get all of the recognition. It's almost like a high school culture
-you will literally have to sell your soul to move up within the company. Proceed with caution
-if you are creative the culture may stifle your creativity 
-the vision and TV commercials sound and look great but it's a whole different story in the trenches
-if you have genuine passion and love for what you do, and are on the fence with other offers or opportunities, go elsewhere.