Company: Microsoft
Date: 2009-01-06
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Fine if you don't wan't to progress.
Pros: Huge company allows many different opportunities for learning new businesses, products and styles. They consider firing more painful than death, and will avoid it at all costs. You can coast here for 10-15 years, easy. Some of the best benefits in the world.
Cons: Bloated organization of lazy slobs who cannot see anything outside of the Redmond-topia. This total disconnect taints every facet of our business.

Because the ranks are full of useless middle-management who were promoted for no reason other than to retain bodies and build miniature empires, promotion is difficult if not impossible unless you master the brown-nosing politics of the old guard. It goes without saying that performance is not rewarded.