Company: Microsoft
Date: 2018-07-23
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Toxic, racist, boys club. If you are anyone other than a 40+ white male, stay away.
Pros: Compensation is high for Seattle Puget Sound area
Cons: Highly racist organization. Daily micro aggressions (and blatant racism) asserted towards POCs. Boys club with widespread sexual harassment and collusion across the company. Company puts a lot of energy and effort to manage perceptions around racism, gender bias, etc., but it is a show. 

Completely bland and soul-sucking culture. Most are there for the money. I rarely saw true passion exhibited.

Awful work-life balance, similar to Amazon.

Disgusting, stifling level of politics. I wonder if half that time was put into innovation, how much further the company could go. Get out of this position of trying to chase Amazon/Apple/Google or some awful idea your Manager’s Manager came up with because they’ve been at Microsoft 20+ years and lost touch with current tech/media/business trends and/or got their job based on politics, instead of actual competency.

Where are these Directors/GMs being found? Hire leaders with actual desire and competency to be people leaders, not just managing cost centers. 

Unless you are trying to put your kids through private school or need a Visa, I’m at a complete loss as to why anyone works here.