Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-04-16
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Perhaps a ray of hope
Pros: compensation and benefits are  good to very good. Medical was outstanding up until 2 years ago and moved to a savings account model, not bad, but not nearly as good as before. Work/Life balance is also very good and not abused.
Cons: "officially" eliminated the forced stack ranking which was killing the company by pitting everyone against their teammates, but the effects still linger as it has not been put into practice and some still following the old rules.
Political? you bet. Undocumented rules and policies? tons