Company: Microsoft
Date: 2009-12-16
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Comfortable but boring
Pros: - Good pay/perks for the area, job stability.
- Not as many long nights as at a startup.
- Company has a lot of resources.
Cons: - Boring!  Other companies in industry are doing much more interesting things.
- It's a huge company, don't expect to feel much camaraderie with coworkers or be kept informed of (the few) interesting things going on in the organization.
- Very top down (compared to startups and other companies in the software industry).