Microsoft

A decent paycheck and good benefits to run your family better.

Considering Windows shares more than 80% of world OS, you can see interesting tech products every two years.

You can change organizations if you are not screwed with stack ranking.

When joining, negotiate and get a job with a higher level because once you join, growth is very slow.

I had great respect for Microsoft when I joined. I turned down Google for Microsoft. This is what I get from Microsoft for that.

• No value to real work.
• Talk, talk and talk BS. Add politics to it and you will grow.
• Company is full of managers who are C+ or B+. The only task of these people is to play politics, stab other people, and grow. A completely disgusting culture.
• People with passion for Microsoft are homegrown. Typically, they are freshers who join the company and are fed with Microsoft-biased videos. These noobs eventually create the creepy culture inside Microsoft.
• Company management doesn't care for people. They fire people easily for no reason.
• Don't expect to get an amazing job elsewhere because of the MS brand. This is no longer respected. Companies like Google or Apple rock in this matter.

Work-life balance sucks if you are at a lower level.

(LAST ONE) Microsoft has a stack-ranking system. It screws up 50% of people even if you are the best. 50% of the company is walking dead who hate their job. Now imagine the company with this culture. If you are the best, look elsewhere because Microsoft is not for the best.

Screw your management. Fire Balmer. Put Balmer on a stack ranking system and make him feel he is in the lower 20%. Yes, get him fired too. I would love to see him jumping like a mad dog.

I can never recommend Microsoft as an A+ company anymore. If you get an offer from Google, go there.