Microsoft reviews

This was one of the worst decisions I made after my MBA. Although the money is really good, Field organizations don't value MBAs and therefore you spend a whole year chasing your manager to give you relevant work. Field office culture is toxic as layoffs are common and treated coldly and they always start with the MBAs as no one cares to help and develop their skills. The program in itself is terribly organized, it is a sink or swim program and the attrition rate for MBAs is very very high. If you are serious about sales this is the worst program for a software company. Also mentorship is non existent and the only way that you make it in this program is if you have a good manager willing to coach and build you. I left after a year and a half to a better environment.

Microsoft Reno seems to not want employees with more than 8-10 years of experience. At the Reno office, we called it the 10-year curse, because that was often the time you'd be managed out. They focus a lot on their intern program with UNR, and that's because those are the people that will replace the tenured employees when they get laid off. It's highly frustrating that this is the norm, but I saw so many high quality employees pushed out this way. I went from being identified as Key Talent one quarter with a high review rating to being managed out the next quarter, and nothing had changed about the quality of my work. They didn't even have a rationale for this drastic change. I can tell you the rationale -- my salary, insurance, and stock options had become too expensive for their liking.