Microsoft

Best health benefits.

Very flexible working hours and great work/life balance.

Ability to change areas within the company as no other company... one year work in OS, another in SQL, and the next in Bing.

Freedom to use whatever OS, tool, etc. you want (other companies are much stricter).

• Too centralized in the USA; not many opportunities for employees to work in other countries with compelling jobs.
• Although everyone knows Microsoft will still be a strong company in 10 years, nobody knows if it will be like IBM, which is still strong but not close to what it was in the past. This reflects in your stock award value and future growth.

Average performer gets 100% of target stock awards, top performance gets 300%. This is a 25% difference in total yearly salary. This is broken.