Company: Microsoft
Date: 2013-08-29
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Mushroom management philosophy (keep it dark, spread lots of manure, cut off any heads that stick up)
Pros: Wonderful people - hardworking, motivated, enthusiastic
Interesting projects - challenging problems encountered in the day-to-day
Community involvement - Day of Caring, corp match donations of time or money
Cons: Canabalistic culture - dog eat dog
Performance reviews - pointless and demoralizing
Management fears change - doesn't want to hear about new technology or interesting innovation in the marketplace marketplace