Microsoft

Very big company, able to get my hands on some cool and big projects.

Also, very good benefits and fairly good pay.

Learning from a lot of smart people, and learning Windows Programming, which is not easy to find out there.

The company is too big, so personal growth is not as fast as in other start-ups.

Also, the communication between colleagues is not as good as in start-ups. Sometimes, you have to spend a lot of time trying to dig out knowledge from other people, and after a while, you just give up and want to figure things out by yourself.

Personally, I don't like this type of working environment because it doesn't help the business move forward. However, this is what happens in every big corporation, not just Microsoft.

Try to make the people communicate, inside the team or outside the team.

Promotion is very important to a lot of people, and the way that Microsoft promotion doesn't make sense for the team that is very busy.