Company: Microsoft
Date: 2015-08-02
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Huge variablity in work
Pros: Lots of friendly, helpful co-workers.
Microsoft is such a large company that there are opportunities to work on a huge variety of projects, languages and environments.
Wonderful work-life balance. Everyone is very understanding if you have to take a few hours off here and there for family or other non-work reasons.
Cons: Management often seemed distant - you would meet with your manager for 30 minutes each week, then not see them again until the next week.
A lot of time is eaten up with email, meetings, work tracking, etc. which can leave little time for dev work.
Due to the company's massive size, you can end up assigned to a deadend project, a poor manager, etc. and forgotten about.