Company: Microsoft
Date: 2008-06-14
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

Good individual contributors, mediocre leadership
Pros: Pay is good, projects are interesting. I have worked with a lot of great individuals. Microsoft has a lot of cool projects (Xbox, Zune), which to me gives them a leg up over somewhere like Google or Amazon.
Cons: So far I have not been very impressed by management, who seem to be a bit lost and out of touch with the trenches. Overall I like working at Microsoft but mostly due to the people on my team that I work with, much more than the company.