Well that's unusual, most are .Net centric. Be careful that you don't join MS to work on a particular project and then get switched to something else 6 months

Well that's unusual, most are .Net centric. Be careful that you don't join MS to work on a particular project and then get switched to something else 6 months later because corporate priorities change/the project shuts down/you are better engineer then they expected and they want you on more commercially valuable project. The latter is true for google too, however. You can request to work anywhere but equally you can be told you are going to work on a different project at the whim of the management. That's corporate jobs for you. Why not just join a startup now?