Company: Microsoft
Date: 2015-01-28
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Great company to work for...until recently
Pros: I had too many good years at Microsoft IT to give less than four stars. Although with all the recent layoffs, the loss of market share, the pressure of the stakeholders and still no clear vision of the future, it does feel like it will get worse before it gets better. My highlights:

- Great people
- Great benefits, competitive compensation
- Great opportunities for personal growth: job responsibilities, training, mentors, etc...
Cons: My lowlights:

- Pressure from stakeholders makes profit go before people
- MSIT under constant pressure to change with no articulated vision as to what IT should be causes constant reorg churn, org tweaking, role changes, that just changes people from being the main asset to a pion you can just move around
- Still no vision of the future. Cloud first, mobile first is so large and vague, it means everything and nothing, basically, it means we will go where the market goes instead of where they think it is going and what they want to offer.