Company: Microsoft
Date: 2011-03-01
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Innovative, collaborative and challenging environment.
Pros: Collective intelligent group of colleagues, great benefits, relaxed work environment, very diverse, hire the best, opportunity to innovate, create and pilot new practices and ideas.
Cons: As a manager, calibrating team performance and deciding on annual rewards before employess submit evaluations.  More internal focus on changing jobs every 18 months than doing your job. Little to no succession planning. Very poor transitions between roles.   Very diffult to rise to the top given the very tenured executives.