Company: Microsoft
Date: 2013-09-01
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

5+ years there, mostly a waste of time building subpar products
Pros: * good medical coverage, but is getting worse each year. 
* good work life balance. 
* Wonderful brand name due to Bill Gates' charity work, but is being squandered away by the current management team.
Cons: * Bad annual performance rating system, plagued with wide spread cronyism to the absurd extent.
* Little to no higher level management direction. Lots of turf fighting.
* Subpar culture -> subpar products
* Shallow technical depth in certain hardware divisions.
* Copied all the confidentiality stuff from Apple, but just failed to learn anything from Apple on how to build a great product.