Company: Microsoft
Date: 2017-09-04
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

A great place for apathy
Pros: Work life balance, benefits, people, diversity. Upper management really turning things around and getting the company back on track. Somewhat exciting to tell people you work at Microsoft, again.
Cons: Microsoft isn't interested in "winning" certain categories  of business and it's frustrating to see inept decisions prevent us from growing. Employees don't like change, people are content to maintain the status quo and travel the path of least resistance. Internal politics around race, sexual identity and gender are excessive and forced. Intense internal competition for resources and dollars, de-investment in non-core (cloud) categories.