Company: Microsoft
Date: 2011-10-12
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

Once a great place, gone bad
Pros: Smart people, great benefits, nice physical working environment.
Cons: Been there for over a decade.  Over the past few years, MS has morphed from a company in which I've been proud to work to an environment to one that's stifling, very political, and toxic. The new review system is highly subjective, very few like it. It doesn't matter how many points you put up on the board, it's who you know and who is going to support you in the calibration meetings, which determine your future at the company.  Where's BillG when we need him?