Company: Microsoft
Date: 2020-12-13
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Big Corporation, Great Experience
Pros: - Overall positive environment with lots of smart people
- Good leadership with Satya Nadella
- Good benefits
- Values diversity
Cons: - Big corporation with associated bureaucratic sluggishness
- Pros mentioned above can vary greatly across orgs so YMMV
- Entrenched senior employees/leaders who are underperforming are hard to dislodge
- Lots of reorganizations where mistakes of previous regimes are repeated
- Bottom line profitability is usually the critical underlying metric, even though other goals are promoted to be more important