Company: Microsoft
Date: 2015-09-18
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former

High caliber employees, decent pay, but too top managed with an adversarial corporate climate
Pros: Peers are very smart and of high caliber - some of the smartest people around. Pay is on par with the industry and the benefits are exceptional.
Cons: Top managed from Redmond - Satellite office, despite being quite large, had little autonomy. Yearly re-orgs and constant management re-shuffling. Corporate climate is more competitive and adversarial than collaboratory. Although it kept you on your toes, I believe it is detrimental for achieving the overall goals of the company.