Company: Microsoft
Date: 2012-04-07
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current

Challenging work with lots of smart people
Pros: Work with lots of smart people.  Work on products that are visible to millions of people.  Great brand recognition, which is good for your career as a whole. Great benefits and a flexible work environment.
Cons: The company is huge, and inevitably this makes it slower than smaller companies.  Despite best efforts to remove unnecessary process, there's still a lot of necessary process that comes with writing software that ships to millions of customers, which reduces perceived agility within the engineering team.  Vertical career advancement opportunities are slow to develop.