Company: Microsoft
Date: 2009-01-07
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former

The New IBM of 15 years ago.
Pros: Impact millions of people worldwide with MS products
Cons: Slow moving and loosing the innovative edge. The company's management used to be extremely accessible and brutally honest with it's employees. This was 8 years ago when I joined the company. Now there are too many prep meetings for meetings with executives where so much of the informatin is filtered by people trying to protect their jobs - that it is getting harder and harder to make quick swift decisions to compete in the Google Era of Microsoft's history. Microsoft has survived the past competitive eras because they were software products that can take some time to build, etc. Applying a 18month-36month development cycle to Internet services which are literally in beta for years does not work. This is the reason MSN and other divisions of Microsoft are struggling to compete with Google.