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.

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: Benefits are awesome, as well as the parties and swag. It could be a great learning environment.

Cons: Schedules are too tight to really enable you to learn something new. It's too difficult to get a promotion because you have to kiss the manager's butt and work well over 40 hours per week just to get your normal work done, let alone anything that would help you get a promotion.