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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,831 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      77% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Senior management

      Microsoft has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 53,831 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
      4.0
      Aug 18, 2019

      Great benefits, not good salary and RSU until very high levels

      Principal software engineering manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great benefits with health insurance, legal support, and gym membership. It is a true software company if software engineering is indeed your passion.

      Cons

      Base pay and RSUs are lower than industry. Because of that the good people leave for better pay eventually. This causes not only churn, but also reduces the quality of the engineers eventually. Satya did a good job on the image of the company, however when you are inside, many things are the same. Diversity and inclusion is a joke. Most upper mid-level management (some M2s, most directors, DEs, junior VPs) resist to change, so organizations, ICs, M1s get stuck in between.

      3.0
      Jul 20, 2019

      It used to be a great place to work for.

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      So many teams you can join. if you have a good team you have so many opportunities to grow. very good benefits.

      Cons

      each team has their own culture and management strategy. Overall Microsoft is trying to cut costs on everything. the work place is not fun anymore. they changed the activity and play areas to work stations. its mostly open space which can be very distracting. the review system is a total disaster. HR doesnt care about your complaints. if a manager doesnt like you he can really ruin your career at Microsoft. some managers run their teams like its own private company, dont follow Microsoft guidelines and have nepotism.

      1.0
      Jun 10, 2019

      Terrible experience at Dynamics 365

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Most of the developers are pretty skilled, however, they cannot utilize their knowledge under such terrible management.

      Cons

      Incompetent management that does not give a damn about you. Terrible product, each team is blaming the others for their faults. Average compensation. You need to do a lot of politics when you want to raise.

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