Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-10-07
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Good people twisted by performance review process old or new.
Pros: - Very good salary.
- Good bonuses if your peers allow it.
- A lot of flexibility in your time management.
- If you are a horn tooter you will succeed.
Cons: - Work is piled in a way that you can flexibly decide when to work 16 hours per day.
- The ranking system seems to be gone, but the internal culture and people still enforce it. In the review system there is a "check box" equivalent to a rank of Underperforming.
- You can do your job perfectly (no errors) and on time and still be pushed to an Underperforming status compared to your peers.
- If you care a lot about your work's result this company may or may not be a good fit for you; it all depends on how many tasks you can perform at the same time.