Company: Microsoft
Date: 2012-10-13
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Senior Product Manager in Redmond
Pros: Global company, incredible reach.  Many opportunities across business groups to move laterally among different roles and move up into increasing levels of responsibility.
Cons: Microsoft is becoming very bureacratic in larger busines groups; smaller business groups have trouble surviving if they do not have a CVP with clout.  Manager positions change rapidly and business planning/execution is done on annual cycle so only what gets done during a single year (really 6 months) counts.  Then plans and priorities are rewritten.