Company: Microsoft
Date: 2021-04-16
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Talented people wasted away by poor management and limited investment in microsoft advertising as a business. Avoid!
Pros: - Pay and benefits can be initially appealing (however getting a payrise/promotion is near impossible so you're stuck at a certain level for years) 
- talented and smart colleagues 
- work travel used to be fun pre covid 
- work flexibility to choose hours and work remotely
Cons: - Unrealistic/delusional expectations to match competitors in terms of client service with very limited investment in terms of people or product tech. These expectations can lead to bad work life/balance.
- Inadequate management who have a tendency to take credit for the work of the talented people they manage to get ahead. 
- Career progression is tough due to unfair performance review system where popularity is more important than performance 
- Big ambitions but without the budgets to match which leaves the business always playing catch up to competitors 
- Colleagues can be cut throat to protect themselves when things go wrong, team spirit is questionable