Company: Microsoft
Date: 2012-04-05
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Not what it used to be
Pros: Pockets of serious innovation scattered throughout the company allow you to grow and flourish, unfortunately, they're just pockets.  The benefits are good, but now buying my own, they're not that good.  The false value of the stock offering is just an annual bump in your pay...stock at MS isn't what it was 20 years ago when I began
Cons: Where do I begin?  Serious inbred areas where foolish behavior is tolerated.  Promotions based on sexual bias (the most recent being a Dev Mgr hiring his girlfriend into a role she had no business in being hired for at all...proof...4 months later she left the company after midyear reviews...she's at Google now as an admin, which is what she was prior to being hired as a tester).  Mid management plays games with others careers which if you trust them will cost you dearly.  You can only count on senior management to have your back if you make time to get to know them.