Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-08-30
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Nice Place to Visit, but I Wouldn't Want to Live There
Pros: - Compensation is competitive
- Still a lot of smart people there
- Big company with the resources to do what they want
- Plenty of stuff to be learned
Cons: - Easy to miss broader tech trends and not learn technologies the rest of the world uses
- Microsoft is still very Windows-centric even though the rest of the world isn't
- Work/life balance can get miserable
- Office politics and culture are sometimes poisonous