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
4.0
Nov 8, 2015

Good for life, but not the best for career

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Pros

Do not go to Exchange. Then the life would be good. The work life balance is always good here

Cons

Only a few teams need to work with edge cutting tech which means out of company, your experience of value is limited.

1.0
Oct 14, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent talent pool if you're lucky to be in a good team. Okay benefits. Good place if you want to find startup founders.

Cons

Your career is dependent upon your team, manager, organization, funding, project, peers, etc. There are too many things that could disrupt your career at MS. Forget about innovation. The attitude is to just get by with the bare minimum and a me too product.

1.0
Sep 27, 2015

One of the most stressful and unfair environments you can imagine

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good salary, good benefits, flexible schedule. Some interesting projects

Cons

In the Senior bands and above, insanely unfair performance reviews. It all depends on how much the boss likes you. Seldom any relationship to value. There is plenty back-stabbing and tripping of fellow coworkers. If you are a woman, don't bother. There is a class action law suit pending, and it was filed for good reason. Even when you go for someone who likes you there are reorgs every few months and you end up working on something that you have no experience for, with no time to ramp up. I worked there 15 years, it is disgusting to see how differently bad the company is from when I started.

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