Company: Microsoft
Date: 2018-04-01
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Enterprise Strategy Architect (now called Digital Advisor)
Pros: A very strong brand, both in the enterprise and consumer markets. Strong products that we all use on a daily basis. A company that changed the world and is doing it again. Exceptional leaders at C-level, starting with Satya who stands out as a humble, visionary and figure making CEO. A feeling of being in the footsteps of Bill Gates, one of the very few ultra-wealthy people genuinely trying to make the world a better place. Overall, working at Microsoft is about being connected to a couple of core values and showing up at work with a sense that there is a higher purpose to it. Beyond that, employment conditions and benefits are excellent, work atmosphere is mostly collaborative, and for those like me who are in the enterprise business, it is one of the only companies who virtually has every single firm on earth as a customer.
Cons: In the enterprise services division, I found the performance measurement framework to far too quantitative, generating counter-productive behaviors. Back in 2015 the organization was siloed, EPG and Services not always collaborating efficiently, and a number of management positions were challengeable in their usefuleness. Since then the organization has been transformed and may be a lot more healthy and efficient.