Pros: Good training and mentoring for students.

Cons: Bad compensation and benefits. Underpaid for interns.

Pros: The team is very close-knit, and there are lots of morale events. People work hard and are extremely passionate about what they do. The pay and benefits are very good, and the management strives for high results and driving forward the company's vision. As an intern, the opportunities to meet with senior executives and technical leaders is unparalleled. There is also a passion for quality that I have not seen at other companies that I have worked for.

Cons: Work sometimes gets stressful, and sometimes there is not enough collaboration between teams. Products are not marketed well enough. Technically superior products, like Azure, are not market leaders.

Pros: Great incurs and good location.

Cons: Being a contract employee, you are branded with the tag "VENDOR". Discrimination for vendors exists at every platform, from not being invited to meetings to not being eligible for almost every other service. Vendors are provided with leftover work that has minimum technical requirements. They are not invited to team meetings, not invited to team outings, and not invited to decision-making meetings (as if their input is not at all required). A manager might say, "Just finish this by evening." You will always feel like an outsider who is not given any importance. It was the worst decision to join Microsoft as a contract-based employee.