Microsoft

Good money. Good benefits. Smart and cool people everywhere. Highly competitive; hard and smart work are required. Good resume item. You get a chance to work on something that actually impacts people's lives all around the world.

Highly competitive, hard, and smart work are required, but are not enough.

You need a good manager too, or else it won't matter.

If you don't have one, get the hell out of there.

You get a chance to work on something that actually impacts people's lives all around the world, but chances are you'll end up doing boring stuff, lots of it, by the way.

Get reviews; you can underperform too, you know.

BTW, we are like 5 years behind our competitors. Don't bother releasing the magic mouse we've been working on for so much time next year; somebody else is already selling it.