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      Microsoft Program Manager reviews

      4.1

      79% would recommend to a friend

      (1,195 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      85% approve of CEO

      65% positive business outlook

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      Program Manager employees have rated Microsoft with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,195 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Program Manager professionals have an excellent working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Program Manager professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      4.0
      Sep 25, 2008

      Good Company but lots needs to change to be the best.

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      Pros

      Diverse culture, lot of opportunities, being in the middle of great technology company are the best reasons to work for the company. Medical benefis are great.

      Cons

      Salary is very low compared to the same level for other companies. Work life balance is a complete disaster. Middle management expects too much out of you. They want you to not only achieve your goals but super exceed in every goal to get a promotion or a good bonus. Some of the middle management people are not even managers. they do not know how to manage or asess people if they are good or bad. They think that if you talk more and stay late then you are great and otherwise not. Particularly MS IT is a bad place to work.

      4.0
      Sep 21, 2008

      Unbiased review from an industry professional

      Program manager
      Recommend
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      Pros

      You have the opportunity to work on some many different aspects of the industry: from OS, to Games, to Frameworks and hard core research. Microsoft also support extensively their employess and give no-non sense perk, like 100% family medical coverage, paternity/maternity leave and other cool benefits if you are a bit older than a recent college hire. If you are looking for massages and free food, you will not get them here, but you will have benefits that target a more mature audience (remember, Microsofties are in their late 30s and 40s now)

      Cons

      Leadership do not support taking risk as much as they should in order to really innovate. The web is a new environment that requires a more iterative and risk taking approach. People who have been here are not used to this concept and innovation is hindered. The bureaucracy, or Microsoft Tax, is so high at times, that innovation is considered to be releasing a competitor feature on schedule.

      2.0
      Sep 17, 2008

      The truth and nothing but the truth

      Program manager
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Big company and can move around within the company easily. There are lots of things you can work on. Lots of technologies and lots of benefits.

      Cons

      It's a very "click" type of environment. Either you are in or out. And the club that you want to be "in" with is management. Your performance will get you promoted slowly. But it seems to me the ones who are "in" move up a lot faster.

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