Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-04-10
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Good benefits and fun environment
Pros: Benefits here are great for both full and part time employees. Fun place to work even on the busiest days. Even the store meetings are fun. And for the first 3 years I was there, it didn't feel like I was just working retail - it felt like I was part of something bigger and a lot better.
Cons: We had a change in management at my location and the turnover rate spiked. For a long time, the most common reason employees left was a promotion within the company. But I saw more people leave last summer than I'd seen in the 3 years we'd been open. I can't speak for everyone, but for me, it was depressing to check my work email after a few days off to find out another co-worker was "no longer with the team". 

By the time I left, it no longer felt like I was part of something bigger; it was just another retail store with a revolving door of employees. It's hard to feel like you're part of a team when your "teammates" change several times a month. 

There were other changes I disliked, but it's difficult to explain those without getting too specific and losing any anonymity Glassdoor may give me.

If I had left a year earlier, this review would be 4 stars and my only complaint would have been the lack of communication among managers. But seeing things change the way the did has left me disappointed.