Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-05-06
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Beauty or Beast?
Pros: Very smart and intelligent people to work with and for. You get to learn loads of new stuff, develop yourself extensively as nobody will shy away from giving you feedback. They take privacy and diversity very seriously and live by the principles they set. Nice perks like MGX ( most people use it to find their next job or pave the road for it), bonus, salary quite competitive.
Cons: Be prepared to work long hours, forget family or social life, devote yourself fully, especially around December and June. Very sales oriented not customer focused and can drive you mad if you are in sales or sales support roles. Unless you are a geek or inspire to be one, be prepared to be surrounded by them ( sometimes can be quite entertaining too) Learn to play the office politics, only way up is by literally recruiting sponsors ( everybody delivers as if you fail your quota twice in a row, you will be out anyways)