Pros: Their stock program is interesting.

Cons: Really toxic environment. The HR lies during the screening, and the offer is misleading. Also, the HR's only role seems to be to bring people in and to obey the management. The managers take revenge on employees that don't do things how they imagine they should (and without telling them what they expect), and they make a show out of it. It is full of meetings after 18:00, even if officially they respect work-life balance and they actually make a case out of it in the recruitment process. They mock the Romanian people for updating their hardware very rarely but provide obsolete hardware to new employees, blaming the chip shortage. They don't even clean it; it almost always is broken in some way, full of crumbs and fat. They hire based on nepotism for leading positions. They force people to work from home without providing any peripherals, office chairs, or anything else except the laptop and the charger. Their perks program is a scam. I've never seen anything like this before. I regret joining them.

Pros: Work-life balance is good.

Cons: The company is so big and the architecture so complicated.

Pros: Microsoft has one of the best work-life balances across tech industries.

Cons: Low compensation as compared to industry standards.