Company: Microsoft
Date: 2015-12-17
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Turning things around
Pros: Working with some great, smart, committed people. Benefits are among the best in the region. Opportunity to work on a multitude of interesting projects. Facilities and training opportunities are high quality.
Cons: The time consumed performing iterative, documentation-focused HR tasks is a burden to management and takes away from one's ability to focus on and drive their business. The manager feedback process is flawed, as low performers can torpedo a manager's rating as "payback" for an open and honest review. The review process also pits peers against one another - whether overtly or covertly - and this interferes with true cross-group collaboration.