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Great, stable company to work for

Software Development Engineer In Test (SDE)
Former Employee
Worked at Microsoft for less than 1 year
September 3, 2008
Redmond, Washington
4.0
RecommendsApproves of CEO
Pros

Tons of smart people. Lots of groups to work for, all situated on a single campus. Each group at Microsoft has a product line often equivalent to another rival company.

Great benefits, especially medical.

Cons

Too much butt-kissing required for promotions. You better be the manager's pal.

Lots of infighting between groups, especially R&D and secretive incubation groups.

Advice to Management

Please get better middle management (in Microsoft, most middle management are engineers) and support mandatory business/MBA development programs for all middle management.

Please focus on more coordinated research and incubation efforts, and not on which internal group comes out on top after thrashing all others.

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