Company: Microsoft
Date: 2019-06-09
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Great company - losing culture in the UK
Pros: Company very clear on it's direction after years struggling to find it's place
Work with the brightest people - lots more focus on working together to achieve more - in previous years there was drive to work against other teams with lots of internal competition
Great benefits and flexible working
Cons: In the UK the Reading base is no longer the right location. Lots of people are now London or UK based and the culture in the office has been lost as more and more people work remotely. Use of technology to keep connected is great but UK HQ really needs to move to London as customers and partners are no interested in coming to Reading now.