Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-07-11
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Great place to start your career
Pros: * Work on products/services used by hundreds of millions of people
* Great, interactive atmosphere - where everyone is looking for new ways to get things done
* Solve macro problems - large system services architecture and strategy.
* Won 'great places to work' for a reason
* Microsoft is reinventing itself in where it goes and how it gets there.
Cons: * Lots of scope for growth/ability to work on different areas up until senior level... but many then move to Redmond to progress beyond senior level.
* Less of an issue at lower levels, but having senior-level influence on Redmond teams (with an 8 hour time difference) means calls up until 6, 7 or 8pm.