Microsoft

Stable, benefits are (still, used to be even better) very good for people with families. Many projects the company is working on, so you can change things up without leaving the company.

The company is huge and has many old corporate culture pieces in place, making it hard to stand out as an individual contributor.

The review system used to be very contradictory. It promoted collaboration and teamwork in words, while in fact pitting you against your peers. It has changed now, but it's too soon to tell if it's a new approach for real. Many things depend on your manager.

Forget about work-life balance if you want to advance quicker than average.

The more time you spend here, the more you get stuck with MS technologies, which doesn't help much when you try to find similar class employers outside of MS.

Well done on the engineering reorg, but many things can still be improved in terms of employee career management.