Pros

* Big company means lots of career opportunities.
* Great benefits program for you and your family.
* Depending on the Team, work/life balance is possible.
* Lots of smart people to work with and to compete against.

Cons

* Big company means lots of process and/or repetitive process.
* Loyalty factor is blemished given Microsoft claims economy is impacting them and laid-off strong performing employees with companywide job eliminations. This in turn puts a permanent blemish on their loyalty factor for those working or thinking of working there in the future.

Advice to Senior Management

Please do a better job of promoting all the great products you make. And thank you for finally rebranding with "Bing" instead of "Live Search"! If you can just get rid of the rest of the "Windows Live" branding, you may clear the fog that confuses everyone about your offerings, which includes the employees themselves.