Microsoft reviews

Let's see... downsides. For people who I've known who come to the company and then leave, there is a lot of "luck of the draw" in the hiring process. If you hire into a group that is not well managed (it happens), you can find yourself in a high pressure, long hour job with no end in sight. The best advice I have hiring into Microsoft is to be careful in the way you interview your next employer. Since there are so many jobs available across many diverse groups, be sure to not land a role only with the thinking "get your foot in the door. Nobody benefits when a new hire burns out and leaves in the first year.

Although it's a great place to work for a big company, it is a big company. Too many people making too few decisions. Far too many people I know spend their time working and reworking and reworking powerpoint slides that can be reviewed, chewed on and re-edited again to show to someone else. This lack of single point of accountability was really bad. Also, with so many people career advancement is getting to be pretty difficult. It's getting very tenure based, like a Proctor and Gamble. This is a bummer. Finally, I think that too few people really have the technical and customer passion that's needed there. Few people are really up to speed on the latest products coming out from competitors or how our customers interact with them. This is a bad habit and too many people have gotten lazy.