Company: Microsoft
Date: 2013-11-07
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Political, inward looking and now panic about failure of Windows 8
Pros: many potential career paths
fair to good comp package including stock awards
good health care coverage, flexible
Cons: extremely political, managing "up" necessary to survive, terrible management behavior overlooked, lots of CYA, lots of internal reporting and not enough customer focus, very tough to be hired in from the outside, do not truly support remote workers, evaluation system of calibration is barbaric and creates highly negative environment