Company: Microsoft
Date: 2010-08-31
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current

Microsoft: great for glory hounds
Pros: Fantastic benefits - the best medical you will ever see.
Every day is a new interesting challenge.
Very internationally diverse workforce.
Cons: Reward is based ONLY on individual achievement. If you like teamwork, then keep your distance.
Glory hounds get all the cookies.
Work-life balance is really poor if you want to advance.
People-skills aren't one of the important factors in becoming a manager.
Reward system creates an atmosphere that often suppresses good ideas (i.e. 'if it's not mine, I won't promote it).