Company: Microsoft
Date: 2011-09-28
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Managers make or break the MSFTE experience. Politics matter more than output
Pros: New Base Salaries around 100k
New SDET focus on coding 
opportunity to write our own tools
Finally, a team that pushes for work/life/balance
New manager is awesome and further shows the within Microsoft you can have great and horrible experiences pending who you report to
Some of the top engineers in the world work here
Cons: Was stuck with a manager for several years that stagnated my growth
Commonsense dies the further you go up the management chain
2-4th tier managers do not think about hte bottom line and manage information up
We're to Top Down and stifle IC innovation
to much email and at all hours
To little in person communication
A lot of push on opinions without open mindedness to change or alternative options. "what my manager says, I do."