Company: Microsoft
Date: 2008-07-29
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Microsoft--Good pay, need new executive team.
Pros: provides plenty of online courses, in class sessions, and a book budget to learn new technologies. They also provide you with an online portal where knowledge can be exchanged and discussions can continue on why one technology is better than the other. 
When on a project, the more senior folks will take the time to help teach you what is needed to get up to speed and move quickly through each task. In time you will be doing the same for some one else – this is truly a rewarding feeling.  When you are given a job to do – do it well! No matter what the task is – accept it and do it well. Keep doing this and you will have proven your self to be a good worker. Accenture will help you grow by giving you more and more. As you complete each task – you don’t realize it but you are learning something new that will in fact help you with gain a broader spectrum of applicable knowledge – this is when Accenture will open up newer opportunities to you. That is, if you know how to apply the knowledge you have acquired
Cons: Lets talk about business need in terms of your worst enemy now. Lets say you just got off a project. And you specific field of interest is no longer as much in demand in the market. You end up sitting on the bench until a role opens up. But you cost the company a bit of money when you are just sitting around waiting for a role to show up. So after a while you will be approached with other roles which are not exactly what you had signed up for when you joined the company its up to you to accept or decline – but remember – there is no business need for the kind of skills you have to offer. And there is no telling how long you will have to sit around and wait for a role. Oh! And while you are sitting around – that is not going to look good when review time comes around. Does that mean it will effect your chances of getting a promotion? Well that depends on a whole lot of other factors like how much you delivered when you were on a project etc.