Microsoft Reviews

Pros

Career path,
Training,
Smart People,
Package,
Top employer

Cons

Competition due to too many talents.

Advice to Senior Management

More innovations

Pros

- High impact work and responsibilities;
- Exciting and motivational environment;
- Corporate visibility and recognition in the world;
- Excellent resources available;
- International exposure;
- Great pay and benefits;

Cons

- Long and hard hours;
- Small fish in a big pond;
- A complex corporate culture;
- Limited opportunity to work remotely;
- Too much regional autonomy;
- Inconsistency in licensing;

Advice to Senior Management

Create apprentice opportunities rather than starting everyone, regardless of experience, as a manager. Less emphasis on regional autonomy with more consistency internationally. Less emphasis on individual product licensing and performance and greater emphasis on consistency of licensing and policies across products and regions. This provides greater assurance to customers and partners.

Pros

The People you work with ona daily basis
Work/Life Balance is generally good
Pay is good for contract workers
Fringe Benefits
Networking

Cons

No training for contract workers
Complete seperation between contract workers and FT workers

Pros

Good benefits and nice workplace environment. Generally nice, smart people. You get your own office with a door and a window with tenure.

Cons

Hard to get projects done because everyone has to have a say in it and management can say no or change priorities. Some problems never get solved; they just reorganize every 18 months.

Advice to Senior Management

It's grown too big and bureaucratic and it's hard to move ahead because of all the contingencies on other parts of the company. Its focus is too fragmented.

Pros

1. Access to resources 2. Availability of information 3. Agressive work environment

Cons

1. Depending on business bureaucracy can slow down growth.

Advice to Senior Management

Spend more resources on Innovation

Pros

Great company to work for especially if you have a family and want to maintain good work life balance.

Cons

Compensation and career advancement can be slower if you are not a top performer.

Pros

- Interesting technologies and lots of software development everywhere
- run by engineers
- vast opportunities to work on different kinds of products and technologies
- great, intelligent and happy people

Cons

- too much politics or management gets in the way of shipping great products
- too hesitant to ship interesting ideas unless its $10B business
- benefits are steadily declining
- new review model sucks

Pros

Lot of facilities
Redmond is fun in summer
Interns are pampered like CRAZY!!!
Microsoft Prime discounts
Free microsoft software (through free MSDN subscription for a YEAR!)
Intern gifts (I got an Xbox with Kinnect, Zune HD and a windows phone 7)
Oh... Challenging, game changing... yada yada work! :-{)

Cons

Bureaucracy as with any company
Wages could be higher
Junior employees can not have a life!!

Advice to Senior Management

Junior employees also have married lives, let my wife work remotely! :)

Pros

Great Benefits and Flexible Scheduling. Plus, a lot of internal job opportunities and ability to move around. Little Chance of being laid off (Secure)

Cons

The comfortable lifestyle, great benefits and high margins reduces turnover and keeps employees there for a long time. As a result, you have limited upward mobility.

Pros

Passion, flexibility, challanging and part of a team

Cons

Hours, time to get things done.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to employees as you have been.