Pros: - Very good salary. - Good bonuses if your peers allow it. - A lot of flexibility in your time management. - If you are a horn tooter, you will succeed.

Cons: Work is piled in a way that you can flexibly decide when to work 16 hours per day. The ranking system seems to be gone, but the internal culture and people still enforce it. In the review system, there is a "checkbox" equivalent to a rank of Underperforming. You can do your job perfectly (no errors) and on time and still be pushed to an Underperforming status compared to your peers. If you care a lot about your work's result, this company may or may not be a good fit for you; it all depends on how many tasks you can perform at the same time.

Pros: Great benefits, awesome resources, and super smart people for the most part.

Cons: Too much infighting between groups; way too much politics to get ahead.

Pros: The pay is great, very nice people. Almost anything you want to work on in the technical space is available there, so switching around doesn't require switching companies.

Cons: Sometimes Microsoft can't commit to funding a project internally, but will turn around and spend 100X to buy a startup that did the same thing a year later. New VPs like to kill the previous VPs' initiatives, like a lion taking over a pride and killing the cubs. They want to be seen as the source of the vision and leadership, not a babysitter of someone else's idea, even if that idea was brilliant.