Pros: Microsoft is huge, so you can always find your niche. From my experience, everyone is very inclusive and supportive in helping you find what it is you are passionate about.

Cons: With the company being so large, no two experiences are the same, and your experience really depends on your manager.

Pros: 1. Work-life balance 2. Mature management that truly cares for its employees. 3. Very smart, super helpful colleagues.

Cons: 1. I wouldn't mind some more money.

Pros: Great perks and benefits. If you do the bare minimum and can ship code, this is a place you can collect a decent paycheck and coast pretty much forever. Coworkers are generally good people and nondiscriminatory.

Cons: Microsoft's senior leadership talks a good game, but working on a team day to day doesn't reflect the reality. Too many egotistical, toxic senior engineers who have coasted for years and siloed domain knowledge, and are "too technical" to let go, are the ones who truly run the show. Pray you don't find yourself on a team with one of these. Outdated tools for building and deploying mean even simple, straightforward changes are painful to get through, doubly so for legacy products. Lateral moves are completely self-driven. Nobody really cares about your individual career advancement. Managers are too stressed to do anything but get their features shipped in time. People rave about the WLB, but this is entirely team dependent and individually driven. I often see people arrive before 8 AM and not leave until past 7 PM. Long meetings. Inefficient meetings. Meetings, meetings, meetings, where people tend to ask "smart" questions and nothing really productive comes out of it.