Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-08-14
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

They treat you well, but have no direction, constantly changing direction, and lousy metrics for measuring performance
Pros: They really take good care of you. Work life balance is great for a tech job, they care about your health and well being and take your feedback seriously.
Cons: Lousy management. They have no focus or direction at all and are too concerned with raw numbers and quarterly results instead of company direction or quality. Things look like they are improving under Satya N. but it is difficult to undo so many years of mismanagement quickly.
Their assessment process is terrible: they rely on numbers, e.g. number of tests, lines of code instead of what those numbers represent.