Microsoft Reviews

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

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

Microsoft believes in its people and takes a clear stand on political issues relevant to its employees. The corporate philanthropy policies with matching gifts and volunteer time cash donations are exceptional and make me proud to work here.

Cons

Microsoft for years has been unable to shake its "uncool" reputation compared to Facebook, Google, and Apple. New synergies, visible in the metro UI standard being shared across products, is starting to bring the cool back to Microsoft.

Advice to Senior Management

Take advantage of strong Microsoft brands and beef up marketing efforts in order to stay competitive with Google and Apple.

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.

Pros

Exposure to new technology, good compensation.

Cons

Current healthcare benefit is great but will be scaled back starting in 2013

Pros

- highly competitive
- play to win in the long haul
- money cushion means this company is less affected by economic volatility
- culture is relative open, fair, not terribly hierarchial (especially in marketing)

Cons

- sometimes the size means navigating the organization is tough
- duplication of work across the organization
- waste of resources by people driving political agenda

Advice to Senior Management

- strong vision is always needed
- remove cross organizational redunancies
- work better across divisions to harness synergies

Pros

opportunities to grow career
opportunities to learn new things
opportunities to participate in tackling new challenges and setting industry standards
smart people
excellent benefits
good rewards for hard work

Cons

when people are asked to volunteer and they do, sometimes they are not given an opportunity to pursue what they have volunteered for, which discourages them.

Advice to Senior Management

encourage initiative by acknowledging volunteers

Pros

challenging work, smart people, great

Cons

political environment is difficult at times

Advice to Senior Management

keep politics out of workplace