Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-07-13
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Great place to make a difference
Pros: Some of the brightest people in the industry work here - creating amazing results for customers
Ability to really make a difference
Cons: The travel and expense systems are truly terrible - makes travelling on business tedious
Recent local decisions on a range of benefits show short termism and penny pinching
Performance system getting better but employees have very little (no) input into their end of year outcomes
Hitting arbitrary scorecards far too important. Needs to focus on doing the right thing for the customer
Progression based solely on internal brand - you need to trumpet every little positive up and across the org chart to get ahead