Company: Microsoft
Date: 2012-08-01
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

People are truly the #1 focus at Microsoft - combined with a HUGE investment into technology R&D
Pros: - technology investment
- focus on growing and supporting people
- quality of peers and managers is generally top notch
- tremendous focus on growth
- extremely storng focus on ethics
- great reputation, proud to be associated with Microsoft
Cons: - Microsoft does NOT do a great job training business people - as opposed to their technical expertiese
- Microsoft services is a second class citizen to the product groups
- Too heavy reliance on partners versus devleoping organic capabilities and scaling Microsoft in specific strategic markets