Microsoft

1. You can control which area you wish to build your expertise on.
2. Lots of great teams to work in.
3. Great perks.
4. Totally a personal call if you wish to extend your peers as 'beer buddies'.

1. Recently, terrible politics has cropped up.

2. Leads/Management care about you only if you don't spot the blemishes on their work.

3. Gaining visibility in teams has become such a necessary evil that some would resort to doing senseless work and canvassing opinions from alike dumb leads (while other true contributors don't get their own due kudos for their contribution).

4. Recently, an Employee MS poll lost its confidentiality, and leads/Managers could specifically spot each employee's feedback on them (which was supposed to be highly confidential).

Stop hiring/promoting unqualified female employees (in the name of achieving diversity).

Stop calibrating on prejudice.

Stop making dirty politics against ICs who've offered stringent feedback (lingo: Individual contributor).

Start contributing by leading via involvement rather than directing (even a 10-year-old can distribute work off a sheet).