Microsoft reviews

The benefits package has changed and the healthcare benefit is a pain now. Now we have to deal with co-pays and lots of confusing bills and paperwork at the doctors office. With the old plan, you just walked in, gave them your card and you were done. Now it's just a pain to deal with plus a lot of out of pocket money if you need surgery or anything expensive. The whole rating system of forcing 7% of the employees to get the lowest score is ridiculous. If they tried to force kids in public schools to adhere to this where 7% of them would always be failing just because their peers were doing better, this would be unacceptable. The system feels forced and not truly based on performance. Trying to fit to the perfect curve means a lot of people get scores they don't deserve. (On both ends I might add.) The other thing that bothers me greatly about Microsoft is the low number of female engineers and a very low number of females in leadership positions. It's still very much a "boys club" here.

Used to be a great place to work, but no longer. Way too much bureaucracy, performance review process is a death march, both management and employees stopped listening or even paying attention to the customer's needs a long time ago. The red tape, political cut throat environment prevents groups from any real innovation. And finally the most important...they need to get back to the business of rewarding employees who learn and stand up for customer requirements. Too many Indians (I can't believe this is an American company in America...90% of the teams I worked with were all Indian...that is not what I call a diverse employee base).