Company: Microsoft
Date: 2017-06-26
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Transformation while keeping shareholders happs
Pros: Great time to be at Microsoft, the company is finally moving away from selling traditional on-prem licensed software to ITDM's, and moving into selling business outcome based solutions in the cloud.  Very exciting time as the company pivots on it's customers rather than it's products.  The company truly values it's employees and wants to make a difference all over the world.  Although we exist to make a profit by helping our big enterprise customers solve their real problems, the profit we make from that is to support the end result of helping others, lots of charity work being done.
Cons: During this transformation, the company needs to operate like a startup and absolutely everything internally needs to change, however, Microsoft's board of directors and many of it's shareholders are old guard who are only interested in a short term profit and don't see the value of allowing the company to invest in itself to handle this transformation, so you always feel the pressure to make the number at all costs while operating like a non-profit.   Sometimes you get the feeling competitors are moving far ahead despite the koolaid you're drinking.