Company: Microsoft
Date: 2015-09-14
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great Company on the move
Pros: Microsoft is a great company with great people, great products, great and interesting Jobs and has an open and collaborative culture. Currently they are undergoing quite a big change as they are opening up and have a big focus on the cloud. With the innovation and research power the company is always at the forefront of technology. People wanting to work at Microsoft need to be willing to work in an entrepreneurial way as there is a high emphasis on Management by objectives so there is quite a big freedom of how you do your tasks. What counts are the achievements and meeting the defined scorecards and budgets. Rewards and compensation are quite good although - revenue - target setting - like in other big global companies usually can be little influenced can be little influenced so whether you meet your goal, overachieve it or stay below is often somehow by hasard.
Cons: In Microsoft internal controls and compliance are quite important slowing down decision processes or the speed of serving customers. (Eg. Inviting customers to a normal lunch and pay for it  is already - depending on the customer - not possible.)