Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,815 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 53,815 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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1.0
Oct 14, 2010

Experience working at Microsoft

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Very prominent company. Salary and benefits are very good.

Cons

Intolerable levels of sniping and power struggle Turf battles often result in decisions that work against the company's interests Too many reorganizations and changes in management Too many managers ill-suited to the job, poorly trained and allowed too much free reign Following companies that innovate too often and follow much too late

5.0
Sep 6, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexibility, stability, creativity and innovation (in this role)

Cons

Idiot managers, foolish PUMs and GMs that can't see the forest for the trees. The idiots get promoted to these levels (by majority) leaving the intellect and innovation in the weeds

1.0
Aug 26, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great technology and a company that is best placed to win in the new economy. The benefits are good and the people are good.

Cons

The management style is very autocratic and it's a case of being told what to do and how to do it. They're not interested in feedback and morale is pretty low. On the carrot and stick equation it tends to be motivation by the stick with not much carrot. As a result a lot of people have left and continue to leave. The directors and the sales force are paid on different objectives and this causes a lot of friction as unnatural behaviour is required which frequently benefits the Directors but not the sales guys. Despite having a great technology story for the market, Microsoft's weakness is that it is incredibly internally focused to the detriment of the client.

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