Company: Microsoft
Date: 2013-10-12
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Smart People, Opportunities for High Impact; Review System Creates Toxic Culture
Pros: Good benefits; opportunities to work on products that affect millions of users; smart co-workers.
Cons: Curve-based review system (stack ranking) causes a lot of politics as people seek protection by kissing up to manager buddies; people withhold the info you need to do your job; people stab you in the back; causes stress and anxiety that interferes with work; distracts employees from pleasing the customer, pushes them to do internal show-off projects.

Poor management decisions resulted in embarassing product failures that have tarnished the company's reputation.

Stock has not moved much for a long time.