Company: Microsoft
Date: 2021-01-06
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Huge potential, stock-driven culture
Pros: You can have a long career if you want at MSFT. The lateral movement options are almost endless.
Great work-life balance
If you are on the right team & role you can have lots of fun while doing hard work
Products and services are fantastic
Cons: Politics. Once you become director your growth path changes entirely. It becomes a mission to find a sponsor, "serve the coffee" and not caring much about the results in the field. The only thing it matters is to keep your boss/skip/sponsor happy and make them look good, regardless of what the REAL result on the ground is.
It's all about making the stock price steady and growing. Any slow down creates automatic panic and an incredible amount of churn across so many people that is painful just to watch an army of folks to move for a powerpoint creation. 
Since the stock price is what matters, everything is short-term oriented. While google, amazon, salesforce and others are making long-term bets from a sales perspective, MSFT just wants to close the quarter in good shape.