Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-09-20
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Microsoft's Slippery Slope
Pros: Smart people, hands on cool technology, people are overall pretty friendly, and one can do well if you think smart, work really hard, and cozy up to the right leaders.  Benefit package is still very good, and work accommodations are very comfortable.
Cons: Typically, work life balance is nearly impossible to really achieve, there is little time to breath, and change is non-stop and chaotic.  Corporate leadership, starting at the CEO, has been on a 2 - 3 year strategy exchanging loyal, productive, long time employees for overseas labor to cut costs,  Steep moral price to pay when 15, 20, 25 year employees with stellar track records are terminated to reduce costs and replaced, in bulk, by overseas labor.  Microsoft used to profess that people were its most valuable assets, those days are long gone.  It is just another technology grinder now; it has been many years since Microsoft has been a true technology leader.