Company: Microsoft
Date: 2012-08-09
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

the Vanity Fair article was on target...
Pros: Great technologies, very smart people, great benefits, employees seem to have a sense of pride, beautiful campus.
Cons: Extremely political, Very internally focused, too much red tape and unnecessary processes/reporting. Lower level management staff is very ineffective. The compensation plan is not very good. You are judged on your ability to position yourself politically and not by your ability.