Company: Microsoft
Date: 2013-10-12
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

A dystopic G-rated place of productivity/familyland balance.
Pros: + The full time employee FTE benefits (medical/dental/legal/gym/employer match/commute-options.)
+ Career advancement opportunities and merits. 
+ Competitive salaries
+ Microsoft Prime / Free orca card
+ Prestige
+ Great places for people who want to work smart / hard / perpetually
Cons: - A good or bad manager can make or break your career. 
- Get used to re-orgs shaking up your ant-farm empire of success. 
- Time consuming enough to have cookie cutter time for raising a Microsoft family, driving your SUV, taking DSLR pictures of your trip to Paraguay and talking about your kid's shingles on corporate email threads while justifying your alcoholic tendencies. 
- not often, or in all circumstances but FTEs treat CSGs as "lesser thans"
- as loyal as you are to them, you need to pace yourself because you may fly too close to the sun, 
- Little creativity.