Pros: Compensation is competitive. Perks of working at one of the largest software companies are cool (beta testing, access to all products for free, etc.). There are lots of opportunities for lateral movement within the company to work on something totally different.

Cons: Review model forces employees to compete with each other instead of collaborate. Lots of focus around 'visibility.' Ie., you get rewarded more if you are the loudest person in the room, but not as much for doing great work.

Pros: Benefits are better than other companies.

Cons: The corp makes people fight each other to get a good review. People do not help each other.

Pros: Decent pay and benefits, work/life balance. Lots of seemingly "intelligent people". Playing catch-up can be fun. Game Dept. is the best to work at.

Cons: Shark Tank. Contractors and blue-badgers, fighting for the scraps mentality, as Microsoft slowly sinks. All the really talented people already left. Ranking reviews leave everybody always at each other's throats, looking for ways to degrade you. It's a bad environment for innovation. The really nice people end up leaving due to the aggressive, competitive nature of the environment. Intellectual bullies. Lots of bureaucracy to deal with. Stratification. Contractors are treated as in the same category as janitors, for the most part. Windows Team people are the worst to work with. The mentality reeks of obsolescence and a Nazi camp work ethic. One of the Indian program managers raped a janitor in building #27 (Windows Group). Buildings 25, 27, and 28 are toxic, and so are most of the people. The Windows Group harbors obsolete mentalities that need to be flushed out before they destroy Microsoft from the inside. In building #26, the Automation Group consists mostly of senior-citizen-like people: old, grey-haired, fat, unhealthy, resource hogs, who are on the edge of retirement. All the good people have left, or purposely forfeited their jobs in lieu of better offers.