Company: Microsoft
Date: 2013-01-27
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Your manager owns your
Pros: - Good compensation & benefits.
- Looks good in the resume
Cons: - You manager has TOTAL control over your destiny, and that includes you future career opportunities within MS, your work/life balance, and virtually everything must be aproved by your manager. It totally up to them to rate you, regardless of your previous ratings. It's up to them to decide that you'r late, even if you're ahead anyone else with your work. The stack review system made it clear where the boundary is for people to turn into a**holes.