Microsoft

I almost never work nights or weekends, and on average work 40 hours or less a week.

On an established team, lower management is usually competent.

Perks and compensation are pretty good.

Hard work is usually (but not always) recognized and rewarded.

Workplace environment is quiet and spacious once you have a few years of seniority.

Microsoft isn't afraid to spend money on its employees, unlike some other rival companies.

Benefits were tripped a bit recently (mostly medical).

Not much faith in upper management and C-level executives.

As with many companies, visibility and loosely defined "impact and influence" are more important for performance reviews than actual performance.

Performance reviews can be interpreted as opaque, unfair, and subjective.

Focus more on retaining competent (not just rock star) employees, rather than just hiring externally. Otherwise, people will jump back and forth to get pay raises. Good for them, bad for the companies involved because of ramp-up time, loss of domain expertise, etc.

Get rid of the useless Principal/Partner and higher ICs and management. There are many good ones, but there are a lot of talkers/politicians as well. The longer they stay, the more the culture shifts to reward that behavior.