Company: Microsoft
Date: 2013-09-21
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Too big to survive
Pros: 1. There are some very smart people you want to be around.
2. Sometimes you get to work on interesting things
Cons: 1. Stack-ranking is a disaster: a pseudo-science at work affecting many
2. Lot of people approach their job similarly to politicians with one goal in mind--higher position, more money, more visibility. It is more important for others to be know who you are, as opposed to, whether you actually accomplished something.
3. Wisdom flows down from above, for example, bet the company on cloud