Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-06-23
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Thoughts after 17+ years
Pros: * You get to work on technology that impacts millions of people
* Good benefits. The ones I like are free MSDN subscription, company store deals (example: $25 Xbox Gold per year), $800 reimbursement per year for sports equipment and activities
* Lots of opportunity to move around the company and work on different projects
* Stable company, low risk of Microsoft going anywhere anytime soon
Cons: * Extremely political.
* You have to be very careful with management and with peers, if you talk too much about what is not going well and how to change it you may be seen as too negative and that you can never overcome even if you are sincere in your intentions of making things better and offer suggestions on how to change
* Values external candidates rather than internal ones
* Slow to respond to new technologies or opportunities