Company: Microsoft
Date: 2013-10-04
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

inward directed
Pros: You get to work with smart people on interesting problems; it is hard to get hired, and if you make it through the review process that gives you a feeling of satisfaction
Cons: stack rank means a you are in a continuous cage match with your colleagues; it is a zero sum game.  Product decisions (or non-decisions) are based more on intramural politics than external market opportunities.  Tendency towards analysis paralysis as well.