Company: Microsoft
Date: 2015-12-08
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Good place to work, but needs a lot of change in pace & thinking
Pros: Great work-life balance. competitive salary and benefits. Awesome location & office in Boston, in addition to the small perks, like fitness, parking, etc. Good people and a fun dynamic of old and young employees. Microsoft generally has good, well-defined process around growing people and promoting them, giving them feedback, etc. It is a great place to start a career.
Cons: Lots of layers of management, meetings, status updates, etc. Some people are trying to change the culture, but the gravity is strong. Microsoft is still a big company, and is trying to figure out how to enact new ways of thinking and executing internally. Most people in management have been there for a while, and they do not have incentive to challenge the status quo.  In addition to that, being a remote location, means less options and teams to move to.