Microsoft – “A company in Denial”

Pros

- Lot of smart people are working there
- Nice benefits (medical insurance, Pro Club, parking, etc.)
- Corporate matching of gift in money and time
- Great place to build your resume if you leave before the 5 yrs mark

Cons

- Ego driven management that rewards smart jerks
- To survive, people need to spend more time doing their own promotion than actually work
- Company lives in perpetual denial of its mistakes
- MS is its own world and new employees have a big learning curve

Advice to Senior Management

The management is in denial that something is not working, that employees are not happy, that users are mostly not satisfied, that competitors can sometimes be better etc. So my advice: Stop listening your ego, instead, open your ears and your eyes.
And you're smart, so do something about it.

note: some Business Units, and few leaders are better than the others...