Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-12-09
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Great culture, very US centric
Pros: Work life balance / flexibility - empowered to work however/whenever to achieve your role
People are generally great
Activity based working environment
Opportunities to travel to the US
Cons: Overly metric and scorecard focussed rather than focussing on the "why" we do things
Lack of career opportunities in Australian subsidiary (unless you are mobile to go offshore)
Money is very tightly controlled - not a lot of funds for morale etc and it sucks having to fly to the US in economy class
Managers don't spend much time focussing on your career - its every man for himself