Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-03-20
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Senior manager
Pros: Paid reasonably. Kept busy with work. The full time employees were generally smart and capable people. Not the most international in outlook but still above average.
Cons: Worked in the Singapore operations Centre. Culture felt less than progressive--people were managed by fear rather than by empowerment and motivation. The general management team at the time did not impress me. To me they lacked breadth of thinking and international exposure.  The company was too complex and a few structural impediments surfaced during the quarterly forecasting and annual budgeting cycles.  employees focused on their own worlds with little cross functional collaboration. Those employed as contractors were made to feel like second class and it showed in their low morale. Desperately need outside perspectives by way of fresh blood across the board.