Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-03-29
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Business Program Manager
Pros: Great projects, strategic initiatives, progressive company and of course fantastic benefits. Very smart and driven people
Cons: sexism and ageism in the workforce. If you complain, you are marked. constant change makes employees fearful and therefore less collaborative, more defensive and feeling as though "I must succeed at all costs". Review process has NOT changed. On paper yes, but not in reality. If you make many small impacts the work is dismissed for those who may drive one large project. Evaluations are not focused on holistic impact, peer reviews are selective, and can be excluded. process can be very subjective with no recourse. Basically, my experience was if you are sub-ordinate and do not have an engaged or support manager you literally are screwed.