Company: Microsoft
Date: 2010-10-20
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Come and stay a while! We'll make you into a paycheck-collecting cog no matter how much fire you have in you!
Pros: * You get to see how many world-class products are built
* The salary and benefits are good enough that you don't worry about survival too much
* Seattle is a great place to live
Cons: * Now that Bill Gates is gone, so has the passion
* A lot of politics to deal with if you want career progression past goon-level
* The salary and benefits are not the greatest anymore, and getting worse
* People working there are depressed or manic, and it's contagious
* Nothing you build today will be as cool as the stuff they used to make in their heyday