Microsoft

Microsoft has one of the best employee benefits and pay in the industry. The company is going through a transformation and moving towards open communications, enabling effective cross-team collaboration, reducing middle management, and bringing back strong customer focus.

Microsoft continually strives to keep its workforce out of their comfort zones, always challenged and pushing their limits, even as many people have come to settle in the company for long-term employment.

Even as the new CEO is trying to get teams to have customer focus, many teams are unable to raise themselves to the challenge. This is especially true for the old-school managers who have grown through the ranks riding on past company success.

There is a fat partner band who don't embrace customer focus and continue to employ politics for survival and growth. They need to be trimmed.