Company: Microsoft
Date: 2012-08-18
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Used to be a great place to work - now you only go there if desperate.
Pros: free soda
free coffee
a few interesting / smart people still left
paychecks still show up on time
Cons: Never-ending review process
Often subjective and sometime arbitrary reviews that blindside people (I, unfortunately, gave a few of them myself and it was traumatic for them and me)
The politics - not for the faint of heart, nor people who just want to do epic stuff
Lord of the Flies atmosphere - it is miraculous that anything gets delivered with all the ,cya, backstabbing, posturing that goes on. Really, it is that bad.
Steveb