Company: Microsoft
Date: 2012-10-23
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Learned a lot of things but did see some ugly politicking.
Pros: Benefits
Smart people
Your own office
Security (vs a startup)
Cons: Stack ranking
You have to be very vocal to get your way (isn't that the same everywhere?) and to get a good ranking.
Office politics or intra-company politics.
Developers are valued more than testers (reflected in schedules where the testing schedule is shortened if developers are late with features)
Lots of dependencies with other groups can make it hard to change direction on a product.
Sometimes you do things just for show but they don't contribute to the product.
Hard to move to development if you started as a tester.