Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-01-07
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

Like a Heroin Addiction.  Painful to experience, and hard to walk away from.
Pros: Cool Technology to Play around with.  Great for propeller heads. 
Decent Paycheck.
Decent Benefits.
Hot coffee.
Running Water.
Signs of intelligent life.
Cons: Attracts all types of middle (meddle) management, except good ones.
Don't expect managers to help you in your career.  Managers are judges, who score your performance, but don't get involved.
Customer-focus is only a bullet point to be parroted to customers, not to be practiced.  Be prepared to spend your time impressing the judges (managers).  Invest your time in building the death-star that is Microsoft, don't waste your energy on customers.