Company: Microsoft
Date: 2012-06-18
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Challenging, relevant work with crazy smart people, but also some BigCo inertia
Pros: Work with VERY smart people
Opportunities to learn a lot
Good work-life balance
Work on software that millions of people use
Lots of perks and great benefits
Cons: BigCo feel - bureaucratic, lumbering, slow to react
Too competitive between employees
Negative perception of Microsoft among users is a downer
Difficult to rise quickly