Company: Microsoft
Date: 2010-04-20
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Too much politics in ladder-climbing, overly competitive and thinly stretched employees.
Pros: Good physical working conditions like private offices, on-site showers.  Good benefit programs.  Smart and competitive co-workers.
Cons: Over the years, politics play a more and more important role in career advancement.  Managers stretch employees too thin.  Also competition among employees is fierce and overly heated.  Constant reorgs happen in almost every product group and mellow managers are thrown out in reorgs.  The ones remain in the managing positions drive employees to the verge of breaking them, which is counter-productive.