Company: Microsoft
Date: 2015-05-06
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Destructive people policy
Pros: Large company with many international career opportunities
Cons: Destructive internal rating system causing very political interactions. Managers from Director and up are more focused on managing their relationship with their managers than to build effective and efficient teams that work well together. It gets worse with progressively higher roles. A strategy for surviving is to move roles every two years, before bad things catch up with you.