Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-10-17
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Welcome to Cloud Operations!
Pros: I came to Microsoft from a $40B ecommerce company and was absolutely stunned by the size of the environment here.  For any discipline, if you get hired, it is assumed you know/understand the technology.  The challenge is how to design/deploy/manage that technology at cloud scale.  I've experienced operational events that I've never even imagined, and feel like I can walk into just about any other environment and not be phased by anything.
Cons: The culture is very development focused and shifting to devops.  This is a con for me as I am a hands-on technical engineer.  I expect that a development background will be required moving forwards.  Work-life balance has improved for my group over the last few months with organizational changes and sharing of responsibilities across geographies, but there are some groups where that is far from the case.  Make sure you get clarity on that if it is important to you.