Company: Microsoft
Date: 2017-04-26
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Changes keep on coming...
Pros: You will work with some of the brightest minds in the industry.  The technology is amazing if you are passionate about seeing the future, this is a great place to do it. Satya is a good leader who is genuinely trying to change the company for the better.
Cons: Its a big ship that takes a long time to turn, so many of the old mindsets are still highly prevalent in the organization.  The key ones are:
1) Arrogance: Yes, there are bright people here, but sadly people tend to believe their own press too much. 
2) Lack of customer centricity:  Linked to #1, people believe they know more than customer do. Frankly, customer is a concept on a ppt slide. Part of the problem is that all global roles are a) based in Redmond b) rarely leave Redmond c) not directly linked to the field where the work actually happens d) spend their time building playbooks and strategy videos NO ONE actually reads or cares about. 
3) Linking words with action: the follow-through is non-existent. You sit in a meeting and the person will say, I will drive that and come back. They rarely do. Its such a large company and globally you are disconnected from the business in many groups so the accountability is not there.
4) Leadership gaps: Leaders tend to be very isolated, at the CVP and GM levels, you engage them through their business managers who filter information to them.   Most leaders also are more focused on making partner than developing their teams, sadly. 
5) You have to be in the Enterprise side, the consumer side is a trainwreck, led by people who have no clue what they are doing. Its also not a focus (outside of Office) for Satya. If you are a strong retail person, you will quickly see many serious challenges. 

Satya is driving change and its the right change, but the challenge is that while he has replaced many of the Senior Leaders who didn't buy into his game plan, the next level of management (GM) is still firmly entrenched in the ways of the past so will take a long time to make Microsoft a customer-centric, people-focused, agile organization and by that time, the market will have already moved on.