Microsoft

Benefits

Salary

Brand

Microsoft works on various technologies and areas, and you are bound to get interested in something.

Own office (Probably a con)

Politics

Microsoft is still in old-world, top-down thinking. The amount of influence you get to do things in other startup and competing companies is huge. Microsoft doesn't give you that kind of influence. It is improving under Satya, but it will take time to seep down. (Problem with top-down).

Good if you are a fresher (again, you are missing out on a lot of learning from the startup world or from competing companies with great collaboration).

Grow up. Let employees have end-to-end influence over customer experience.