Company: Microsoft
Date: 2008-10-06
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Cool stuff to work on, but be weary of back door politics
Pros: The opportunity to work on high impact projects that impact peoples daily lives is the best benefit. Depending on the team you are part of, there can be great collaboration and partnering. MS also has great benefits...especially for famlies.
Cons: hidden politics and bureaucracy required to push new ideas through is sometimes challenging. It seems that many times some of the key strategic information needed to do perform our jobs well at individual contributor level are held back for only those with direct reports and above. Some teams tend to work in silos too much without partnering with the rest of their team or considering their overall role in group strategy. Much too competetive internally to be beneficial