Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-04-19
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Politics and Gender Bias taint the potential of a great company
Pros: Been here for almost 9 years.
- Play with new technology
- Work with really intelligent people
- Pay is competitive but see Cons on gender inequity
- Benefits are still top notch
- New performance mgt system removes internal competition
- New CEO holds promise
- Great work life balance
Cons: - Culture of consensus - bias for CYA vs. taking a risk
- Gender inequality - Mgt has a *very* small percentage of minorities and women
- Politics - the squeaky wheels get the oil and the smart, quiet introverts lose out
- So many managers that it's hard to see if anyone is actually doing the work
- Analysis paralysis 
- Hard to move up internally and external candidates are often given higher levels than internal transfers - even if the internal candidate is better qualified