Company: Microsoft
Date: 2010-01-21
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former

Great place with great benefits and future opportunities....if you're in Redmond
Pros: Great people to work with--the office had a chemistry that made you want to come in and be a team. Never had an experience like it in 15+ years of working corporately.
All the Starbucks coffee you could drink.
Cadillac health care plan.
Pay at the top of the scale, opportunity for 10% bonus to salary every year.
Cons: All future job opportunities were in Redmond. 
Our remote office was shortlived...not bitter, just disappointed. 
Hard to find other MS teams willing to share knowledge and resources. Remote offices were on an island.
Upper mgmt would rather care about rhythm of the business than tell remote office that they will soon be closed. Preached transparency until it was time to get real.
Too many managers gum up the works on proper business strategy.