Company: Microsoft
Date: 2015-10-02
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Principal Architect
Pros: Great pay and benefits, culture focused on technology and innovation, strategy not focused entirely on making profit- it has a higher mission and does amazing things to help those in need, the environment, and the community.
Cons: So matrixed, it is really hard to get things done. Decision rights unclear. Lots of waste, due lack of focus on process or focusing on wrong results. Politics and competitiveness between groups is pretty awful, but getting better