Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-06-07
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Not a good place that it used to be
Pros: - good salary
- exceptional team
- respected company
- work flexibility / work from home
- good bonuses
Cons: - work is so fragmented so that one cannot focus on anything important
- managers have been stripped of power to make decisions, so there is no-one with decision power to talk with
- organization spends more time on politically and financially optimizing decisions rather than taking company forward
- resources as spread ridiculously thin - up to a point of failure
- increasing number of invented reasons preventing people from doing their best, such as hiring/promoting female candidates or school hires instead of merit, internally invented compliance procedures, etc.
- lots of issues that can only be discussed in private
- there is nobody to talk with from management. Everyone is under same pressure and do not have power to change things
- lots of burnout
- some incompetent and abusing managers are keeping their positions