Company: Microsoft
Date: 2012-11-21
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Confirmed

Great place to work, lots of different product groups, lots of different roles
Pros: The work culture is very open. There are a lot of different roles to choose from - developer, test engg, program manager, product management, marketing, etc. There are also a lot of different product groups you can join internally. Internal movement is very smooth and the process is pretty well understood. Pay is very competitive.
Cons: Most v1 products are a lot of fun to work on. When a product team gets bigger, then the processes that come with it are pretty tedious. With bigger groups, you also get a high level of office politics where folks start engaging in micro-one-upmanship that be pretty damaging to the long term health of the product.