Company: Microsoft
Date: 2017-08-01
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Architect Manager, professional services
Pros: Good compensation package, strong brand, very smart and motivated people, industry leader driving cloud adoption. Investing a lot in competence development and will challenge you to grow and develop. Fantastic for career development if you're in regional/global role.
Cons: Annual layoffs targeting employees over 40 and in senior roles, very Redmond-centric, career development only at GM-level and above, Services are a crap org to be in (everything moving to India, firing senior people,hiring only recent grads). Still forced curve in performance reviews, lower performers pruned out yearly. Very few good roles outside of Redmond, company prefers hiring external vs. internal.