Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,783 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

77% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Microsoft has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 53,783 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Microsoft employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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54K reviews
1.0
May 12, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Intelligent coworkers, good brand, universal tech stack

Cons

-Toxic management expects delivery at all costs -Maintenance and bug fixes aren’t valued, only KPIs -Career progression is almost entirely dependent on manager and what work they choose to give you. Creating impact outside of the scope of what your manager assigns you is seen as insubordination. -Low pay which is falling further behind the rest of the industry year after year -Incomprehensible quantities of technical debt created by sky high turnover and pressure from management to deliver KPIs quickly and then abandon them -chaotic on call rotations with little to no onboarding for new developers. Expect to be pages continuously for the entire duration of your rotation.

1.0
Aug 24, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

+ Good pay + Literally nothing else

Cons

- Your experience here is completely dependent on the team that you get placed on. They preach "growth mindset" at the VP level, and then by the team it trickles down to the individual contributors it is a toxic environment, "old school Microsoft culture". - Backstabbing and overworking is rewarded - Often times 24 availability is required, but not listed as part of the job requirements - Internal movement in impossible unless you are Senior level. You are ghosted even internally

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