Company: Microsoft
Date: 2012-01-26
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former

Microsoft is a great place to work except in their IT department.
Pros: Their benefits are unmatched!  They have amazing benefits and their base pay isn't too bad.
Cons: In their IT department, they have yet to come into the 21st century of Microsoft.  They still expect people to work a minimum of 10 hours a day - if you aren't then you aren't considered to be doing a good job.  In IT, your manager will tell you weekly that you are doing exactly what is expected and then a month before reviews are due, they will tell you that while you are meeting expectations, you aren't wowing them and that's not good enough.  Also, if you come down with a major illness, Microsoft has a tendency to hang on to you just long enough to avoid a lawsuit and then fire you.