Company: Microsoft
Date: 2011-06-24
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

If you are a great designer, artist, and a very creative person: THIS IS NOT THE PLACE FOR YOU.
Pros: Excellent medical insurance. Employee Stock Purchase Program. Flexible time. Great 401k. 
Free Soda.
Cons: - Working for this company will drain all your creative energy and passion. They don't reward creativity, good ideas, and innovation. Instead, any good ideas are put down, so that it will leave room for senior management to gain points. It is almost like beating your own relative instead of beating your enemy.  
My goodness, this is why Apple has surpassed this company in innovation and creativity

- Low pay
- Under valued
- Your talent does not count or mean anything. It is all about their stupid review process (very rigid and corporate review process)

- Hyper-competitive inside culture for the wrong reason. Instead of focusing all your effort on beating the hell out of your competitors, you focus more on beating your co-workers.
(very idiotic process). 

-The Stack rank reviews are just pure evil.
Even if there are 10 super-star performers on a team, one of them gets an under performed rating just because someone has to fill that gap; very cut-throat politics.

- too many dinosaurs (old schoolers) that does not want to think outside the box. Old mind set, afraid of risk, and these dinosaurs are only concerned about maintaining what they already have so that they don't rock the boat.

- Stingy!

- Slowly but surely turning into IBM.