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      Microsoft Program Manager reviews

      4.1

      79% would recommend to a friend

      (1,194 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      85% approve of CEO

      65% positive business outlook

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      4.1

      Compensation and benefits

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.8

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Senior management

      Program Manager employees have rated Microsoft with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,194 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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      5.0
      Apr 24, 2008

      A great company!

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      Pros

      You are valued, your input matters. They encourage individual thinking and ideas. People listen, the benefits are great, you work highly intelligent people. Its a great experience. I love going to work every day. Its exciting to see all the new products being developed and then their launch parties. Havign access to EVERYONE is awesome, when I find a bug I am able to report it and get it fixed. If I think something is wierd about a program I can get in touch with the person in charge of that feature and let him know my thoughts. It's excellent.

      Cons

      You can sometimes get into working some crazy hours that throw the work life balance out of whack. You are working for the giant. There are a few bad eggs, but that is likely at all companies.

      5.0
      Apr 20, 2008

      Hands down the best company to work for - if you don't mind the rain.

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      Pros

      Tons of product areas at this company so you can easily find the group which suits you the best. Xbox games, MSN, Windows, SQL, Visual Studio, Home Entertainment, Privacy/Security, Entertainment, Autos, Mobile, etc, etc. etc.... I've worked at Hewlett Packard, and Google, and have friends at IBM and Intel and nothing beats Microsoft in this regard.

      Cons

      You need to be in Redmond for maximum visibility within the company for promotions, and Redmond is COLD and RAINY all winter long... We seem to be growing a little too fast lately. 40,000 in Redmond is a bit too much.

      3.0
      Apr 19, 2008

      Not a young upstart anymore. But Microsoft could be the best college for the rest of your career.

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      Pros

      As far as large corporations go, the average quality of the people working there is still high. Despite the shocking growth, the hiring standards in the core groups are still high. The company generally treats employees generously. Few companies have operating systems, data centers, a video game console, a music player, web advertising and content properties, database management systems, word procesing, spreadsheet and presentation and generally everything else. The discipline that comes from working on products that millions already use - the constraints and the candid feedback - are humbling and highly educational. The benefits are excellent. And if you are at all in the outdoors, the Pacific Northwest is stunning.

      Cons

      A large, centralized campus in the suburb of a mid-size city results in a fair amount of insularity, especially when such a large number of employees are hired out of college and have not worked anywhere else. Only in such an environment do people believe tagging a web site with 'Windows' - e.g. 'Windows Live' - to be a plus for branding. As the company ages and grows, it requires more organizational overhead, which, combined with the kind of orderly processes required to ship products like Office to hundreds of millions of users in dozens of languages, does not result in an agile, entrepreneurial environment. Compensation has, for all practical intents and purposes, stalled. You can get richer there than you'd be at IBM but the gap is shrinking.

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