Company: Microsoft
Date: 2011-03-18
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Big opportunities, but not a nimble company
Pros: The challenges are huge - working at amazing scale and the company name is still respected.  Beautiful campus, phenomenal resources and people.  Still the best benefits in the industry.  IEB  and the few groups still empowering people to be creative are great places to work.
Cons: Senior management remains aloof of industry trends and realities.  The divide in terms of compensation between senior leaders and the rank-and-file continues to grow at an alarming rate.  Politics have increasingly come to dominate decision making and initiative / empowerment is slowing vanishing.  The "Sinofsky" model - increasingly dominant at the company - makes no allowance for addressing or embracing disruptive technologies / industry trends ("well get there in the next three-year plan")