Company: Microsoft
Date: 2012-10-05
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Coin Flip On Which Experience You’ll Get
Pros: •	Great place to work if you find the right manager
•	Good pay
•	Great benefits until Obamacare kicks in and hits health care plan
•	Broad set of work opportunities
•	Good work/life balance if you find the right team and manager
•	Large support for charity
•	Internal Alpha/Beta testing for XBOX, Windows, Office, etc… (Geek Points)
•	Great place to expand the breadth of your technical knowledge
Cons: * Forced curve for review model causes great teams to give bad reviews to good employees.  Someone could have 15 years of above average reviews and get caught by the curve or a bad manager and is then forced to leave the company because of the stigma and difficulty to work your way out of a bad review.
* Many senior leaders are oblivious to the waste and bad decisions of the leaders below them.  
* Small efficient teams are usually taken over by empire builders that are the cause of most waste. 
* People are told they are the #1 resource of the company.  However, most decisions made that effect the employment of individuals are done without discussions for the people involved.
* Many decisions made by management are not data driven.