Company: Microsoft
Date: 2012-10-12
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Office Politics Reign Supreme
Pros: -Great Benefits
-High Salary
-Good IT Department
Cons: -Massive Bureaucracy to get anything done.  6 HR people, 9 middle managers, 4-5 direct managers to report to.
- Stack ranking performance reviews.  Regardless of how well you do, you can always be ranked lowest in order to get someone else a bonus.
- Upper management frequently makes decisions to increase their bonus, rather than for the good of their own employees, career or the product they're working on.
- Yearly reviews take up a good 80 hours of time to complete, as you rate yourself, your co-workers and managers in massive questionnaires.