Company: Microsoft
Date: 2012-01-10
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

As a RSDE, it's a very greate place to start your career, but you have to figure out how to move on soon.
Pros: Good research culture;
Flexible work environmnet in most of cases;
Smart people, from who you can learn a lot on how to do research;
Somehow a good place to do research for a PHD, especially in China, Beijing.
Cons: Bureaucratic;
NO long term career for master degree, and for RSDE;
In a research lab, they need people to take the engineering work, but they don't rewrard people who take engineering work farily. So either you should insist on research work only, or you should consider move on after a few years.