Microsoft Reviews in China

Pros

Excellent enviroment, smart and nice people,

Cons

Process is pretty heavy sometime overwhelm

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

Work with talent people and lots of resource can be accessed.

Cons

Heavy structure, heavy process and somewhat bad management

Advice to Senior Management

Less bureaucrat

Pros

There are too many things to learn in this company, especially for junior level people. Great people, great culture, great technology.

Cons

Bureactic as the company is getting bigger. Lack of innovation while enjoying the early success in Windows platform. Lack of vision in current leadership team.

Advice to Senior Management

Give business unit more autonomy, and fully responsible for business results.
Look ahead, keep on innovating, and forget how you succeeded in Windows. The world is changing now.

Pros

Above average salary when started
typical fringe benefits
Caring managers
Goal transparency

Cons

Incompetent senior management
Too many project managers with non-relevant experience
Lack of trend foresight
Difficult to succeed with innovated ideas

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the shareholders and the user community. less middle management, and retain the bright minds.

Pros

nice career stage for young.

Cons

However low salary in top companies.
No amazing project in China site, you'd better transfer to Redmond.

Advice to Senior Management

Disappointed about the review system, it hurts a lot. passions, teamwork, relationship, trust.

Pros

for professional work style, it is a good place to go to.

Cons

stressful environment and management may show more respect to employee

Pros

smart people and good environment

Cons

the corp is too large, you only focus on one point

Advice to Senior Management

pay more attention on employee's growth

Pros

Deep and new technology
Transparent and efficient
Work & Life balance

Cons

The company is too large, code base too large

Advice to Senior Management

are we over driven by the market and statistics?

Pros

People's respect each others. If you can do a good job, others would recognize it.
You have plenty of technology talks.

Cons

The salary is not good enough, considering the competition among local company.
The company does not grow fast enough, so you don't have the feeling of parts of great innovation.
The work and life is not balanced. Used to work till 8:00 PM.

Advice to Senior Management

Please don't push too hard for the results. If this case, no one would have the time to learn more knowledge and gain technical growth

Pros

very good tech
high quality products
smart people
that is the three attributes that keep me in MS

Cons

the team where I'm in is too number focused (even not result focused). The number really drives me crazy. Those numbers in many angles do not fully reflect the actual business situation and it actually can hurt the company and also employees

Advice to Senior Management

think beyond just number