Company: Microsoft
Date: 2010-12-31
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former

Don't be fooled. Microsoft was once a great place to work, but not any more.
Pros: Brand Recognition. 
The Microsoft Campus (regardless of which one you wind up at) will be nice.
There is a great deal of flexibility with regard to which 12 hours you wish to work each day.
Cons: Currently, Microsoft is so focused on cost cutting, you will have to deal with constantly eroding benefits.
The culture there has become very elitist. Even the dumbest blockhead is convinced they must be brilliant or Microsoft wouldn't have hired them.
There is a great deal of talk about "Work Life Balance", but it is just talk. There is constant pressure to work more, put in more hours, stay later, etc.