Company: Microsoft
Date: 2013-09-04
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Once a great place to work, now WalMart of software
Pros: Good employee benefits, private offices in Redmond, free drinks, good benefits, reasonable RSU's, overall decent employee care.
Cons: It is unfortunate that over the last five years what was once one of the greatest companies to work at on earth has become a place of politics and nonsense.  When you work at MSFT, someone on every team needs to become the village idiot every year, eventually it will be you.  So my advice if your moving up to Redmond, don't buy, rent.  You could have a good 4 or 5 years and go from the rock star performer to the village idiot and you will never see it coming.