Microsoft

• Good for waiting for your retirement to come.
• Very good for people who like political battles.
• Might be a good work-life balance if you land on a good team (which is rare).

Overall: it is a dying elephant.

Very politicized.

Very bad for any technical career.

Too many "story tellers" and visibility gainers, but very limited amount of really working people. Everybody wants to delegate and eventually get credit for your work.

Outdated stack of technologies; most of them are already irrelevant.

Questionable medical benefits.

Paycheck below average.

• Switch to a Google-like hiring, review, and promotion system.
• Rate people by skills, not by talking and "gender/race correctness."
• Hire better engineers and promote capable managers.
• Remove junk from the company.