Microsoft

Great work environment, concentration of talent.

Good benefits.

Diversity of technologies within the same company, including many innovative areas, despite common opinion.

Middle management is composed of grown-in-place individual contributors who often have no experience outside of Microsoft. As a result, low and middle ranks of management are not very competent, often petty and narrow-minded. The internal engineering system is traditionally over-complicated and cumbersome.

Attract low-level management from outside; do not promote in place. Bring actual SDET back, at least in critical areas, as developers do not test their own code well. It rarely works this way in big projects.