Company: Microsoft
Date: 2008-06-11
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Microsoft is 'blah'; not bad, but not great.
Pros: Some cool products, such as Microsoft Surface, that can make a long term impact on computing. Also, the fact is the products we work on are still used by millions of people. In addition, flexible work hours, so you rarely have someone checking the clock, and good perks in addition to the salary.
Cons: Hard to get recognized, mostly because there's so many other people in the same situation as you. That in turn makes it hard to move up quickly, so gone are the days where you become instantly rich. And since it's a large company, you often run into politics at the workplace, meaning some decisions make no sense whatsoever.