3.0
Apr 5, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
* Good pay * Good benefits * Good work/life balance * Some good products * Lots of opportunities for growing and learning.
Cons
Microsoft is weighted down by being a big bureaucracy. Merit is measured on a set of fixed metrics ("commitments"), but these are very often set by management regardless of reality or common sense - very often these are contradictory and plain nonsense. Also, product vision is generally speaking pretty bad, and there is little innovation going on - everything is based on who you know, and decisions are often made without understanding the broader impact.
