Microsoft

Microsoft is a great company.

They offer free drinks and cheap food at a great cafeteria.

There are unlimited resources, pretty much any kind of project you want to work on, and a lot of mobility within the company.

Opportunities are available all over the world.

The new management really gets what needs to happen, and it feels like the company is going in the right direction.

There are some great people at Microsoft.

Organization tends to be unstable. You never know when you will end up on a new team with a new manager. Managers have unlimited power and virtually no accountability. They can make you a star or run you out of the company with virtually no challenge to their reasoning or facts. This is great if your manager likes you, but terrible if not. Sadly, not all managers are good.

More checks and balances are needed in the new review model.

Also, better strategies for normalizing situations where people have multiple managers in a short time period.

Definitely need better strategies for holding managers accountable for the results of a review and some way for employees to challenge that.