Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-12-16
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Nice bonuses, frustrating release cycles
Pros: Bonuses are larger, especially once you've been there for more than 5 years and have a large stock pile of stock vesting (twice) each year.
Most managers allow you to have a flexible work schedule.
Cons: Releases are rushed, which leads to (usually 1-3) months where you are working nights and weekends to get a feature developed before the code complete deadline. Then the feature still doesn't ship for another 6-9 months after.
Getting stuff done is slow.