Microsoft Reviews

Pros

Employee Purchase benefit, Work with highly talented individuals, Free starbucks coffee, and Free healthcare.

Cons

Misaligned strategy and execution
Highly political organization
Misdirected management
Overlapping functionality among teams leading to redundancy and cost mismanagement.

Pros

They pay good salary, most people are satisfied

Cons

very busy busy place to work

Advice to Senior Management

be prepare for all the situation

Pros

Microsoft has an outstanding benefits package, and generally respects a clear work/live boundary. There is also generally a lot of support in terms of tools and infrastructure.

Cons

The Microsoft development cycle is painfully slow. Organizational changes happen quite often, so engineers are at a disadvantage when it comes to providing support and/or documentation for their software. The culture seems to have embraced this, rather than creating incentives for collaboration and ownership.

Advice to Senior Management

Microsoft should take a closer look at whether maintaining proprietary and inferior versions of existing open-source tools is worthwhile, and should also consider making greater efforts to foster collaboration between teams.

Pros

Benefits (for now-changing in 2013); Brand Name

Cons

Overworked; no Work-Life Balance; Management could care less; Over the past few years, things have progessively worsened; Advancement is all about Politics - who likes you; Management talks about employees bringing ideas to the table, but just air talk; Review Process is too subjective and your career is put into the hands of individuals who will not show support for you or simply have no idea as to what you accomplish on a day-to-day basis/overall basis.

Advice to Senior Management

If you stop worrying about your personal egos & Good ole boy/girl clubs, you might find that you have a great team of employees; Learn to care or at least pretend that you do; Take an interest into career development for each employee (invest in it). Once you take a true interest in your people, you might find that there are some great people getting the job done for you! BUT - you could care less.

Pros

Think of selling licensing and software to business as a plumbing job. Microsoft makes great "plumbing" for businesses. I enjoy helping customers build new and interesting stuff based on the technology or "plumping" Microsoft provides. Challenging job and if you can make it through the challenging times, it has the potential to be rewarding.

Cons

Too much information internally and little to no easy way to find what is needed. Little communication from other teams, even though collaboration is a keystone to the company. This tends to make the job very frustrating very quickly.

Documentation of processes to help customers with new purchases/releases is lacking at best.

Advice to Senior Management

Better, more clear communication to staff. It would also be great for Microsoft to "cycle" out the managers that have been in the role for more than 5 years and put in fresh faces/names. I've seen more managers be in the job for 10-20+ years and they don't know how to accomplish anything as they have been disconnected from the sales process for so long. Some of the best managers I have had came straight from sales and knew how to get things done that the senior management teams lacked the knowledge.

Pros

The medical/vision/prescription benefits are great, but they are about to change.

Cons

The review process really sucks

Advice to Senior Management

overhall review process

Pros

good place to work as long as you have a good boss

Cons

departments and employees are more interested in making their numbers and committments than in doing what's right for the company overall. So this doesn't foster a cooperative environment. people spend an awful lot of time and energy "reporting up" versus doing actual work.

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

no hierarchy system .The senoirs do give you a chance to put forth your opinion.Team work is mantra of the company.

Cons

Too much pressure on the consultants . No fixed working hrs. . too long targets to achive in less time ,no time to take use your paid vacations

Advice to Senior Management

employ more efficient people. Divide work propotionately

Pros

large scale challenges. you get to work with very smart and passionate people.

Cons

very poor management which leads to frustration during annual review cycles..

Advice to Senior Management

stop running microsoft like wallmart or GE.

Pros

Some of the brightest brains in the industry.
Lot of knowledge and scope
Variety of technologies to work on.

Cons

Performance Review System is bad.
Promotions system is not transparent
Compensation is not good
Management leaders dont have technical expertise.
Lot of politics

Advice to Senior Management

Promote team work and reduce rivalry.
Have more collaboration between groups.
Have more technical people in the management ladder