Company: Microsoft
Date: 2012-08-31
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

Do NOT work for CMGR/Market Research
Pros: -Great at looking at data, poking holes at data, pretending to have intelligent conversations about data, and then trying to make something out of nothing that has little or no relevance to the business
-Awesome at creating useless yet time consuming work to make it seem like they're "contributing."
Cons: where to begin
-The most useless part of organization comprised of people with zero knowledge of business or desire to know the business.  Most people came here straight from school and have made a good living by locking themselves in their office and newer people are straight from research vendors who know very little about what business impact means.  Those that have more significant experiences either quickly leave or eventually sell out to this dysfunction kool-aide.   If you come from significant client/company side experience, this is NOT the place for you.  Only a handful of people come from true client/company side experience.  most come from useless market research vendors. 
-Do not be fooled by buzz words they'll tell you like "business impact; strategic; consultative."  This is a group of folks who don't know business fundamentals let alone marketing fundamentals.  Worst is they create useless work to "teach" these skills to grown-up, experienced professionals.  Is this elementary school?  That's right.  i'm referring to scenario presentations. 
-All or most have inferiority, insecurity, and anti-social complexes.  no wonder the BG shuts them out.
-Absolutely worthless leadership.  How many GM's and Sr. Directors does it take to run a corporate satisfaction tracker?  Lazy, out of touch, in it for themselves, narcissitic, insecure - good descriptors of these folks. 
-Never have i been to a place where it's accepted, embraced, and verbalized that you won't make any impact, wont contribute to the business, and it's a hard culture but embrace it. 
-no one in their rightful, logical, intelligent, and professional mind would say this function and group is right, makes sense, or has potential.  This is a wasteland and you will be taking a major backtrack in your professional career no matter what they tell you about how fancy "Microsoft" will look on your resume or how good the perks and benefits are.  Do not do this to yourself.