Company: Microsoft
Date: 2020-10-19
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

If you want to deep-dive into a MS technology, this is the final stop in RO
Pros: Used to work at Oracle (5yrs) and saw minimal salary increase despite doing well in reviews. 
Meanwhile people I knew at MS in the position I am now saw at least a 60% increase in salary spread out accross those 5 years. At least this is a company that understands the value in keeping experienced engineers.
Also, if you really want a technical deep dive into any MS tech, this is the place to get hired at in RO.
MS has a focus on making connections, so you will end up learning from some very experienced people (I am refering to a Escalation role, you only get the toughest technical issues here).
Cons: I feel MS is much more disorganized in terms of ramp-up, available knowledge base and, it must be said, there’s a general sence of inexperience when it comes to handling queue volumes. Might be the fact that finding truly qualified people for the job and finding them in sufficient numbers is hard, but I don’t think that’s the only reason.