Company: Microsoft
Date: 2019-08-15
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Great place to work, be aware of a few factors to ensure success
Pros: A highly scaled global business, one of the few places where your impact is truly global.
If in a well-run org with good role clarity, you will have the ability to succeed and progress your career
Company has come out the other side of the cloud transformation and is executing well-- you can learn how a well-run cloud business works here
Cons: If org issues lead you to be in level too long, it can be increasingly difficult to progress in terms of career advancement
There are definitely RIFs occurring all the time, and these affect older individual contributor workers most typically, so be careful if you fall into those categories
It takes a lot of energy to get things done, as there is very often no one owner for execution, and all functions report up to an EVP