Company: Microsoft
Date: 2011-12-05
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

Oppressive, zero sum, dog eat dog environment with inept managment, many 
bureaucrats and excessive inward focus.
Pros: Great benefits, outstanding resume experience, many smart people, good systems, better than average processes, many areas for movement in the company.
Cons: Reviews and recognition are mainly a popularity contest and crony  based system. Although the company is profitable year after year there is little room for innovatiom, creative solutions and anyone daring to take risks. Risk taking is given lip service but punished at the slightest slip - failure is not an option so don't dare to step out of line. Products, services, ideas and people that threaten a cash cow are eliminated. there are some of the industries worst managers at MS including at the top. CEO and COO are terrible but they think they are great.