Company: Microsoft
Date: 2011-02-19
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Politics rule
Pros: Very talented people.  Pockets of passionate engineers.  When it's good, it's very good.
Cons: Overly political in the last few years.  Playing the game for promotions and favoritism is rewarded over actual talent.  More of an emphasis on moving up any way possible over focus on working at being the best engineers in the world.  Too many who think they are better than they really are.