Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-10-06
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Wonderful ICs, mediocre management
Pros: People are friendly and the IC culture is great. Having a personal office is amazing (although this is going away in the future I'm betting). Projects are challenging and it's nice to have an impact...
Cons: ...except that if you aren't high up you don't have a lot of impact unless you're lucky. The culture here is one where people are more willing to actively do the wrong thing than spend a little extra time to ensure code quality. What results is a frustrating experience where you cannot be proud of the software you release (or don't release, as the case sometimes may be). Management is not transparent and is largely two-faced. They constantly say one thing and then do the opposite (or just weasel their way out of answering questions). I have no confidence in the CEO or upper management.