Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-10-24
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Graveyard for employees
Pros: -beverage bar
-travel perks for full time regulars
-good onboarding program
-reputation in the market
Cons: They treat their vendor, supplier and contract workers very poorly in their Canada office. 60% are contract workers. They are treated like 2nd class employees and are not involved in discussions. Full time employees don't care much for the company, competition among them is unhealthy leading to internal friction. Lay-offs are frequent, even for full time regulars. Co-ops are arrogant and treat vendors and contract workers poorly. Their recruitment only focuses on certain Universities like Waterloo resulting in groupism like you find in high schools.. 
1/5 stars for Microsoft Canada as a workplace..