Company: Microsoft
Date: 2014-04-16
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

A comfortable, well-paying, steady job with a couple of exciting teams
Pros: Compensation is competitive with Apple/Google/etc
Work life balance is, from what I hear, better.
Good job security.
Seattle is a very cool place to live.
I enjoy being the underdog.  Microsoft hardware is up and coming.
Cons: While there are a couple of cool projects, I'm waiting for Microsoft to release something exciting.  We have been more of a follower so far.