Lack of organisation, incapable managers/team leads - Anonymous employee Microsoft Employee Review

1.0
Dec 26, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Nothing to talk about really, maybe weekly performance reviews.

Cons

Discrimination, favouritism, bullying is very common. I was treated so unfairly at the Microsoft Estonia office. Persons placed into lead positions lack the capacity to deliver, mostly no training at all and just handpicked randomly for so called "meeting metrics" but seriously lacking soft skills. As if all this is not enough, racists tendencies were common and the salary was really nothing special. While I went through several interviews, others just walked in through their friends who are already in, forming clicks and hindering team cohesion. Very very disorganised with no proper standards set to encourage growth and development. Instead, stir up egoism and self centeredness due to how teams are structured. Also very little time for onboarding and communication of important information does not flow as needed through channels where relevant. Instead of assisting team members to grow, manager or team leads feel it's the only job on earth and I guess feel will be managers for life. Grow up, it's a job, like any other.

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5.0
Jun 12, 2026
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Pros

Great benefits In federal, you can get a bonus for government clerances Good work culture Value based organization

Cons

lots of change lots of churn federal side does not align to commercial side work life balance is hard with "unlimited PTO"

4.0
Jan 28, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

1. If you love tech, this is a great place. No doubt you'll talk tech (mostly the MSFT stack) from enterprise to consumer - from PCs to phones to Xboxes - from datacenter to desktop. 2. What were GREAT benefits are now VERY GOOD (took a small step down) but still probably better than you'll find at 99% of large corporations. If you've got family - the value of the benefits is even higher. 401k match is nice. 3. Even with it's struggles MSFT is still a cash printing machine. This means if you can keep your nose clean and do reasonable work, you can have a stable job, pay your bills, feed your family, and not worry (too much) about layoffs. The stock you own likely won't tank, but probably won't go up much either. You'll get a bonus each year and some stock. It's a decent life if you aren't looking to light the world on fire.

Cons

Brand on Your Resume: After many years of losing market share and struggling to be at the front end of innovation and the fact that there's 90,000 employees, don't think MSFT is necessarily going to be attractive on your resume to more agile and smaller companies. Managing Your Career: Make you say this out loud so it registers - 90,000 employees work there. Double that for vendors. It is VERY hard to "stand out" and move up in the company. Don't expect your manager to be much of an advocate or enabler to help you meet your career goals - they are basically trying to survive the stack rank every year too. Not familiar with the stack rank? Check out the 2012 Vanity Fair article called "Microsoft's Lost Decade".

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