Company: Microsoft
Date: 2013-03-11
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

What once was great is no more
Pros: Benefits are good - used to be better, but still good in comparison 
Some good groups and technology still exists - but you have to look hard
Cons: Very Political - over the last couple of years it's become a very competitive place to work.  This is driven by a change to their stack ranking review system which is designed to eliminate 20% of their workforce over time.  It's more like a layoff model.

Having MS on your resume is now a negative - especially to start-ups