Pros: Working with smart people from around the world, access to the latest technologies, first-world facilities, and superb benefits.

Cons: Little opportunity to grow. You compete against old-timers who have been there their entire life, so your only chance to make it is if they die or retire.

Pros: Free water, tea. Using Microsoft technologies.

Cons: Not good work-life balance for some teams. Salary is not competitive. Work is assigned with no learning time allocated. Business-first mentality overweighs instead of employee-first.

Pros: - Good benefits, good benefits, good benefits. - Time-off is flexible and good, but that is because it is not a startup and no one really has a fire burning under their arses. Personally, I prefer driven people who drive hard and then after that play hard.

Cons: Innovation is stymied unless you have a degree to prove that you are capable of innovation. If you are a PhD, you can innovate during your regular work hours, and it is respected and time accounted for. If you are a Master's, forget innovation during regular work hours; you will have to work extra hours for that, and who wants to do that unless you are a crackhead scientist working for the betterment of humanity. Compensation is pretty bad compared to the industry, and promotions and raises are subject to your manager fighting for you with upper management. This won't happen if you get on the wrong side of your manager, say for personal reasons. So, there's no concept of peer reviews holding any water.