Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-11-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

The UK is just a side step
Pros: Good work life balance, great products, good perks and generous bonus, very good and approachable managers in the UK
Cons: If you are in a satellite location as the UK, the US team will unfortunately make decisions that are not being communicated to the UK team. A project you have been working on might just be transferred to the US without upper management in the US involving the UK team at all. There is hardly any appreciation for hard work or any rewards coming from the upper management in the US. This is a very demotivating. Achievements are hardly recognized. The only goal is to centralize everything in the US. The UK is just a side step that doesn't seem to be important enough. Very unfortunate!