Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-10-27
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Decent company to work for but not amazing
Pros: Great benefits and quite generous salary.
Looks good on your CV.
Most colleagues are extremely bright people.
Opportunities to get involved in very large projects.
Performance review is not ratings-based and seems more enjoyable than if you were rated.
Cons: Quite big bureaucracy and much politics involved in most projects which slows progress down
Microsoft seem to value their US employees more than those abroad and it is reflected in the internal level system where jobs of the same description are on a lower level in UK than they are in US.
Expect to work late hours if your team or stakeholders are based in US.