Company: Microsoft
Date: 2017-03-05
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Work/Life Balance is What You Make of It
Pros: You _can_ have a healthy work-life balance.

Able to ask product teams and get authoritative software and design answers.

Decent hardware.

Free soda!
Cons: Open-office floor plan is metastasizing across the company.

You sacrifice career opportunities to maintain work/life balance.

Limited ability to move between teams.  It can be done, but takes a lot of effort.

Constant reorgs.