Microsoft

• Broad set of products to work on
• Mostly smart and driven employees
• Great pay/benefits
• Good flexibility in terms of how to do your job

• Pockets of bureaucracy (depends a lot on the team)
• Performance review system does not empower managers to do what is right for each employee
• Organizational structure with Dev/Test/PM leaders for each area can lead to conflicting priorities/values

Overall, I feel the company is moving in a good direction recently. We need to continue to focus on going deeper on fewer products and hold leaders accountable. We must fix the review system.