Company: Microsoft
Date: 2015-09-18
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Golden Handcuffs
Pros: Very competitive wages, at least when you are first hired.
Work/life balance is hit or miss, my team was great, others were more like Amazon.
Cons: Review system makes things worse than if no bonuses were given at all. Morale can be crushed when someone is told "you did good work, but it just didn't have enough visibility".
Bonus system imbalance sees that certain people get large heaping bonuses, while other critical less 'sexy' work is totally ignored.