Company: Microsoft
Date: 2018-02-09
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Incompetent Managers and POs make working here not worth the effort
Pros: MS is a global company with brand name recognition so it's a positive to ahve worked here, put it in your resume as experience.
Cons: I've worked with 6-7 product teams each year at least, and invariably the program managers and researchers were indifferent and incompetent in understanding product design needs, planning ahead and getting members to collaborate. Researchers have little background in Human Computer Interaction, e.g., I worked with a former nurse, a former sports psychologist and a former salesman all of which were hired as Design Researchers but didnt know what they were doing due to lack of experience/skills/education. Product managers either understood and ignored that problem or thought it would go away with good design.