Company: Microsoft
Date: 2013-03-13
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Everything in the 2012 Vanity Fare article was spot on
Pros: Redmond WA, location; large company offers the many opportunities to transfer internally, transportation assistance (eg. dedicated bus service from around the Puget Sound area), supplementation of fitness club or fitness gear
Cons: Microsoft has lacked leadership innovation since 2000 and has been playing constant catch-up to Apple, Google and others.   Continuous re-orgs make it extremely difficult to have a thoughtful career path.  There is a culture of getting ahead by stabbing peers in the back.    Everything in the 2012 Vanity Fare article "The Lost Decade" was spot on - good read if you are considering Microsoft to know in advance what you are getting into.