Company: Microsoft
Date: 2009-05-20
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current

Microsoft - Great Company!
Pros: Microsoft is a wonderful company to work for.  The people there are intelligent, passionate and the culture is open and encouraging.  The solutions and products really do make a difference to the people and businesses that use them.  The risk/reward culture encourages innovation and exceptional efforts.
Cons: Work life balance can some times be a negative factor, but Microsoft allows and coaches to manage the balance that works for the individual.  For a technology and solutions company they have systems and tools challenges that really impact their business. Change also seems to be a constant and many employees are saying that we should give new business models more than 6 months of run time before we judge them success or failure.