Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-09-02
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

lack of support, little or no relevant training and badly structured programmes
Pros: -Free coffee
-Fancy offices
-off-site visits
-work is so convoluted its easy to not do anything
Cons: The biggest problem with employees of Micfrosoft is that it is filled with people who admire Bill Gates and want their name branded with the company rather than doing something valuable. There is a lot of middle management which blocks people from progressing and the worst thing is the overt competitiveness to step on each other to rise to the next level. There is a lack of opportunities and the skills developed in the business roles you could teach a donkey. It is not real selling. 

I would advise those who are ambitious, intelligent and go-getters not to work for this company. For the graduates, there is not any well structured training (they lure you in with a trip to America) and there are consistent brick walls.  The culture is strong and they make you believe it is the greatest place ever but it is not. in reality, the company is a shambles and is only successful off the back of the legacy Bill Gates helped to build at the prime of the company.