Microsoft

Great campus, good work-life balance (too much life, no work), good compensation, intelligent people around, and ample opportunities for Redmond/California transfers if shifting abroad is your only goal in life.

Too much hierarchy, and you will never know the bigger picture of your work.

Very slow code to deploy cycles.

Old practices, old technologies, old people, old outlook.

They over-hire from the top tech schools in India and end up giving pathetic work to you, crushing any sort of intellectual development.

The initial package is good, but subsequent increments are very low compared to industry standards.

Give more work, confidence, and mentorship to a new hire. Too many team switches give less opportunity to go in depth. Focus on building happier employees by giving them quality projects, not on teaching them your Microsoft jargon and age-old ways of functioning.