Company: Microsoft
Date: 2015-01-08
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current

Great place to work
Pros: Company is very forward-looking with the new leadership (Satya). Culture is rapidly evolving to be caught up with, or ahead of, the competition. Wide reach, with lots of opportunities to make an impact on the world.

Time-off is very flexible. Work-life balance is well managed on most teams.
Cons: Lots of legacy/historical process slowing down the company, making work frustrating at times. Currently a lot of churn to reach "ideal state" as quickly as possible (as mentioned in the pros). Company culture is still not very in-tune with the rest of the market and how competitors do their business at a tactical level, but this is improving in the last year.