Microsoft Program Manager II reviews

3.8

66% would recommend to a friend

(281 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

68% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Program Manager II employees have rated Microsoft with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 281 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Program Manager II professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Program Manager II professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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281 reviews
2.0
Jun 27, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Unbelievable benefits - Health insurance, StayFit, PRIME card discounts Company store Free drinks Reasonable pay Decent office if you have 10+ years with the company

Cons

Product strategy is fuzzy Performance management is a cult of personality affair and a running joke - we spend months on it with no really valuable feedback about how we're doing, rewards are mostly based on brownnosing and who you know, not what you know, and how well liked you are Red tape abounds Products that should be killed in incubation make it to market, then company pulls the rug out from under users when they can't win in that market or can't offer reasonable support to customers Watch your back! Many people like to find others to do their work, lots of finger pointing Managers seem to think it's the 1980s and their so-called "management style" is appropriate although most have no idea what management is - all their management learning comes from MS - not an MBA to be found What is work-life balance? For some it means "I have kids, so I barely show up" while others are expected to carry the load for these absentee "employees" Reorg of the month club

2.0
Jun 14, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Salary, benefits, vacation time, sick time, holiday time, stock awards, smart people, casual work environment, new technologies, great campus atmosphere.

Cons

Has not really innovated anything for the past ten plus years. Chases the competition instead of innovating new products as the first to market with them. The current MSFT stock price hovers around $25.00-$31.00 and has been that way for the past ten years because unlike Apple, Microsoft lacks the "Wow" factor. Xbox is nice but that was chasing the competition as is everything else Microsoft does today. Microsoft is unfortunately a follower and not an innovator. They would usually wait until a competitor is doing something before taking action. Great examples are Firefox - if FF didn't come along, everybody would still be using IE6. If Googles online services didn't come along, Windows Live probably would not have happened. No Playstation, No Xbox etc etc.

4.0
May 16, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Striving creativity, everyone is allowed to speak their mind, evetyone is empowered, so much so that decisions getdelayed due to contention

Cons

small fry in a giant org - impact remains limited until you reach a fairly high rank in the org.

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