Company: Microsoft
Date: 2013-04-11
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Political, stale and unimaginative
Pros: Cash - company is sitting on a mountain of cash and can afford to blow big budgets for Marketing campaigns every quarter which makes your job easy. 
Products with significant market share - Windows and Office - as a Marketer, you can expect sales to roll in regardless of how well you do (or in the case of many - don't) your job well
Cons: Very political environment - many dinosaurs in this company make it hard to do any real work as everyone is playing games to try to move up the ranks. This is particularly tough for new graduates as they are competing for air time with 15 year old dinosaurs who have strong connections with the SLT
Unimaginative - Marketing spend is largely focused on dragging competitors' names through the mud and copying features and products