Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-01-10
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

A roller coaster ride! Thus far!
Pros: Competitive salary, excellent benefit package, good work/home life balance, training opportunities, advancement opportunities, dumped the dreaded ranking system, changing culture, challenging work, and an exciting future for the company.

During the "One Microsoft" re-org I've been lucky enough to have three new, awesome engineering managers to interact with.  They are some of the best managers I have ever had in my entire career.
Cons: As a software engineer, if report to, or interact with, a terrible, non-caring, numbers only manager you, and your team, suffer the most.  Microsoft seems full of these types of managers.  It is best to change teams if you realize you have a terrible manager as soon as possible.