Pros: Things are changing. Microsoft is slow but steady, and hopefully, it will be good. Great perks.

Cons: A great man said that bureaucracy is a place where work is considered done when you put it on someone else's plate. Nothing describes it better for Microsoft. Perks are coming down.

Pros: Working with great people, using the latest technologies available, in a challenging and motivating environment. That's Microsoft! Good social events and benefits!

Cons: Depending on the current state of the project, you may need overtime.

Pros: The people are extremely smart, motivated, and fun to work with.

Cons: The company is not truly invested in growing employees to be what they want. Rather, they want to grow us to be more efficient where we currently are. For example, there is a long, dry gulch between the SDET and SDE roles. Even though some people have made the transition successfully, there is active discouragement by test leadership when attempting to make this transition. The company is lost trying to make money and has become scared to do anything innovative. The coolest products are handcuffed to profitability expectations before the idea is even baked, causing the best ideas to never bubble to the top. Since there is such a high technical bar, incompetence moves into leadership to survive, which leads to the laziest workers in the middle. The review process is a joke. Can you say bell curve?