Company: Microsoft
Date: 2009-05-09
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Great benefits - but pay the cult's price.
Pros: Good pay and relative stability in a weak economy.  Strong benefits package, particularly family health insurance.
Cons: Toxic work environment - lack of alignment of group goals.  Gets all they can out of employees with little care for "work / life balance".  

Difficult to reconcile market perception in press (bad) with internal perception (great)  of company's products.