Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,809 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 53,809 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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4.0
Oct 11, 2013

Great job, experience, work, but toxic culture taking over

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Challenging work, smart people, great benefits, opportunities for growth. If you want to move around and get different experiences within the business, there is support for that.

Cons

Culture over the last few years has been declining, and is now very toxic and cannibalistic. The new review system drives the wrong behavior and is very demoralizing. Microsoft has publicly said that these elements are appropriate for a "high performance company", so don't expect changes. The company speaks of the business value of work/life balance, but does not support it with action within their management philosophies.

4.0
Aug 27, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Microsoft has Great Pay and Health Benefits. You get to work with technical smart people and get to work with the latest Microsoft software and technologies.

Cons

Horrible review system. Demoralizing to the workforce. Compete and backstab your own coworkers. Everything is great until you get a manager who you are not buddies with.

1.0
May 17, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Microsoft pays very well - at least at first. There are not other pros.

Cons

Culture - one of the most poisonous working environments I have ever encountered. Highly political. Completely NON transparent. Wasteful. And very UNproductive. Opportunity - almost none. Research and some of the engineering teams get to work on cools things but there is fat chance they will ever see the light of day. Everyone else is working on propping up the stinking edifice. Job satisfaction. None.

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