Company: Microsoft
Date: 2010-05-06
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

A great place to work, is it still capable of changing the world?
Pros: Respectful, purposeful and responsible employer. Great place to start or the early part of your career. If you like the Northwest US there is a wide variety of challenging roles with global reach. The work life balance is exceptional and the health benefits are the best possible.
Cons: Since 2000 a rich mixture of senior people have come to Microsoft, now it is very crowded at the upper 20% of the company and opportunity for growth outside of WHQ is severely limited.  Highly competitive and increasingly political success is now measured by managing the process up to and even to the exclusion of marketplace success. Culture will suffer if it continues to become even more insulated from the pulse of the markets in which they compete