Company: Microsoft
Date: 2010-03-26
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Squandered opportunities
Pros: - Extremely smart and competent set of individual employees
- World-class resources at your disposal
- Clear hunger to win
- Diverse set of assets that could create an incredibly powerful whole
Cons: - Reorgs, reorgs, reorgs - little to no management or strategy consistency, which leads to dissatisfaction among employees who have to start from scratch every six months
- Engineering-driven decision-making in all key facets of product & strategy, and ineffective hierarchy and process that dampens innovation and slows progress
- Pretty effective job done in negating the value of recent acquisitions in the advertising space (aquantive, rapt, accipiter, etc.)