Company: Microsoft
Date: 2015-09-22
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

Living in a time capsule
Pros: Microsoft was a technology powerhouse in the 90s.  However, poor management, bad acquisitions, and a flawed performance ranking system have turned it into the IBM of our generation.
Cons: -	Most HR and management have been in the company for 15+ years and are not adept at outside the box thinking. 
-	Doesn’t feel like a tech company.  Feels like Proctor and Gamble.  Ironically, Microsoft once laughed at IBM for this structure
-	Overstaffed = office politics = creating pointless presentations and assignments for senior management that essentially add no value
-	Focus too much on end delivery to senior management.  Should it really takes 1 to 2 weeks to generate a report?
-	Performance review extremely flawed and encourages backstabbing.  Although this has changed, the management has not and this continues.  
- Coworkers subsequently not helpful, no transparency across teams