Company: Microsoft
Date: 2011-09-29
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Change the world or go home
Pros: Impact on products is huge - if you work on feature in Windows, Office, Bing, etc. millions of people will use it. There are some seriously smart people working on these things to boot.
Cons: Large company. You're competing for review points against your peers and sometimes team mates which breeds this sort of "arms length" partnership for the most compeitive folks.