Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-07-12
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Managers are way too long in their positions
Pros: Really like Satya's vision for the company, great products and Technology. Doing their best to compete against more modern and young tech companies
Cons: Managers are too cozy in their positions which they can occupy for a very long time (In my managers case 8 years) without any career development plans. I cannot speak for the rest of the Organizations within Microsoft, but in the Advertising Org, the team dynamics are so dysfunctional because of the peer to peer comparison instead of individual impact. Too political (There are teams really have no contribution to the success of other teams but when asking them for something they are paid for to be doing, we are advised to be very political, tactical and gentle when asking. Features are released without any training and everything is US friendly and EMEA needs play catch up the whole fiscal year...Really disappointing..I really want to see Microsoft succeeding like in the 80's and 90's.