Cool Things about Microsoft and Windows Live
Top 10 Places to Work for in Ireland, 2007Top 100 Places to Work for in Europe, 2003-2007Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work For, 2007Fortune Magazine's 10 Most Admired Companies, 2007Business Week's Best Place to Launch a Career, 2007Ground-breaking innovation and innovators at places like Lives Labs and MSR.Cool Starbucks coffee machines in every buildingUnusual Benefits besides the standard 401K, ESPP (non-official, non-binding summary):Membership at the Pro Sports Club, the largest and most complete health club in the country (several other options can be chosen instead). (You do pay tax on this imputed benefit, but there is no initiation fee.)Prime Card, providing entry for you, a guest, and children for venues like The Children's Museum, Museum of Flight, Pacific Science Center, Seattle Aquarium, Woodland Park Zoo for $3 each.Microsoft Software can be purchased for personal use at the company store at significant discounts. Give your family and friends great software by purchasing and gifting it to them. This is encouraged (up to a preset limit).Great cell phone plan discountsFree Metro and Sound Transit/Sounder Train FlexPassShowers and lockers (and now towels). Maternity leave provides a birth mother up to eight weeks paid leave. Dad gets parental leave, which is up to four weeks paid