Company: Microsoft
Date: 2017-04-26
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Microsoft during Balmer era
Pros: Microsoft has incredible smart and talented resource pool, one of the best in the world. Salary and the bonus structure, paternity leave, stock options are super attractive.  It also offers generous perquisites such as nanny service, relocation package and generous holidays
Cons: HR policy was strict enforcement of bell curve that created a back stabbing, zero sum, highly political work culture. In many cases the managers and the employees fell into the same bell curve and hence, managers wanted his own team members to fail and take all the credit so that during the review, the manager looked good