Company: Microsoft
Date: 2013-02-15
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Confirmed

Escalation Engineer
Pros: It is like working in a candy store, everything is there.   If you want to learn any kind of programming, that is the place to be.  Then there is the benefits which are amazing.   That may be toned down in the future, but it has been great.
Cons: It is really hard to be recognized for doing great work.   The review system is a curve on very small groups so it is easy to get into a bad spot.   Even if you are the best at what you do, you can get a bad review because you aren't growing enough or some other nonsense.