Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,836 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 53,836 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
2.0
Nov 9, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good working conditions, interesting people and huge scale of customers.

Cons

Lower salaries when compared with other tech companies of the same dimension. Huge discrepancy regarding payments for the same job in US vs Ireland, while the cost of living is on the same level. Can't hire good engineers due to low salaries for the super high cost of living.

3.0
Nov 3, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company is amazing, multicultural, a lot of young people from the whole EMEA territory.

Cons

Unclear career development plan. People recently hired earn much more than people who was there since much time before (and their experience is not that relevant to justify it).

3.0
Oct 30, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good rewards if career driven and good at communicating visibility. Flexible time especially if you can deliver output with quality on schedule. Good middle manager can make the experience good and shields you from political randomization.

Cons

overemphasis on communication and politics and easy to burnout if poor at estimating/committing. Even though abolished in name, 6 month reviews still use old stack ranking in 2017 across peers and sister teams at your band level. internal engineering infrastructure is klunky and subpar compared to industry open source. Too much use of slow/buggy internal proprietary tooling. Tech stack is too much microsoft-built proprietary half-baked, buggy. zero/horrible documentation and too much reliance on email distribution list support for any layer of the stack. Your experience is a function of ability of manager and the team culture. Top contributors can get slighted by average/subpar devs during review time based on politics.

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