Microsoft

Every day is a new learning at work. The people around, especially the individual contributors, are mostly very smart. There is hardly any day when you don't feel like you are being challenged.

Leadership can sometimes hold you back.

Too many people who have been here for a really long time are occupying positions in middle management without making much of a difference to the product or people.

Many of these people are too rigid to change and are opposed to any semblance of change.

This is usually the source of slower innovation.

I am, however, optimistic with the arrival of Satya. He is making the right noises and backing it up with some sound decisions.