Pros: Job stability, and a chance to work with the latest technology.

Cons: Projects would not move fast.

Pros: Reasonable work hours ("crunch" weeks are far and few between), excellent benefits (all-inclusive - no copayments even required), regional pay adjustments for cost-of-living differences (Bay Area pay was 15% higher than "standard" salaries for comparable job levels when I first joined). I've also had very good experiences with being rewarded for doing good work, in the form of stock awards, cash bonuses, and time off. Products being developed are very diverse, so there's a great opportunity to move between different technologies, markets, and even project scales (hundred-man projects down to teams of just a handful of people). The company is very stable (having been around a while).

Cons: Big company mentality - it often feels like there isn't much innovation going on. Sometimes it seems like the cards are stacked against trying to do something too new or creative. It's also a bit frustrating at times to be under the restraints of all of the antitrust suits which have been going on. Cross-product integration is very tightly examined to ensure there will be no legal ramifications, down to one case where a partner team couldn't explain the format of data they were consuming to our team, because doing so would require them to document/explain it to the general public.

Pros: Company store, which you probably won't use for yourself, but your friends and relatives would love to take this advantage. Only if you have a charismatic leader should you go there.

Cons: It was an awesome place to work before ~2010. The company is struggling now due to competition, economy, and poor upper management leadership. You may never make a good career there. If your team had 20 members and all were Nobel Prize geniuses, they would all get "average" on their yearly calibration/review and never get a promotion. To be "strong," you need to prove that you over-performed others. Stack options are insulting. Medical benefits were awesome before 2012. Now, if you have a family, you have to pay $6500 before insurance starts covering 100%. If you want to ruin your career, join MS, work 20 years, and get laid off at almost the same level as you started. Sick company. Big layoffs, reforms, and reorganizations are upfront, otherwise, it won't survive.