Company: Microsoft
Date: 2010-04-17
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Microsoft is a government employer
Pros: If you are a new MBA, looking for a steady but limited career or are a executive considering a new career at MSFT, you will be happy here.  Management is generally awful.  Top excutives are inbred.  Do not think about being innovative here--innovations belong to other companies, but not here.
Cons: The benefits are amazing but you will pay in almost every other way.  LIke any big company MSFT is reeling from having moved younger mgt to more senior postions.  J Allard was moved to Zune to 'shake things up.' 20 year veteran who has no prof exp outside MSFT is moved to 'shake things up.'  This is indicative of how mgt thinks at MSFT.  But if you are looking for a great opp to learn about the SW industry, MSFT is a good place to start.