Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-11-20
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Political, finance is a relationship manager, not driving results
Pros: Good pay and benefits, great opportunity to develop your business-facing skills.  Decent systems.  Paperless and often phone-based meetings allow for you to work-where-you-are, which is great given how much time you would otherwise spend traveling to different buildings and campuses for meetings.
Cons: Very smart people not always doing smart work.  Overly dependent on vendors.  Massive layoffs and furloughs for vendors is effective because of the inefficiencies, but hurts real people.  Stack-ranking stills happens, despite mgmt. aggressively denying it.