Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,918 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 53,918 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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5.0
Aug 30, 2010
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Pros

Fantastic benefits and perks (gym pass, the Connector bus, Prime card, etc. etc) Excellent process that encourages intra-company moves Can work on world-changing software. Or not. Your choice, really. Can rotate and try multiple roles within reason. Excellent internal training programs Coworkers

Cons

Upward mobility is very slow unless one is in the 95th %ile of peer group Grading/review curve is the bane of employee morale more often than not Mistakes (wrong group, wrong project, wrong manager) take a long time to erase from your internal career 'memory' Test/dev/PM silos end up costing agility and create turf Innovation, while it exists in bundles, is somewhat haphazard and it feels like the company is constantly chasing taillights in many areas. Need a new/hardcore visionary to drive our consumer software/services vision

4.0
Aug 29, 2010
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Pros

- Innovative area (E&D) - Strong team-based environment - Engaging content (E&D) - Passionate co-workers - Great benefits, fair salary, career growth opportunities - Established company, support functions and processes in place to make my life easier

Cons

- Work-life balance can be challenging, especially for those who want to move up - Big company, can be hard to feel like part of the larger organization - Occasional lack of synergy between products/businesses, hard to watch

4.0
Aug 28, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Many incredibly smart individuals, oppurtunity to work with a wide array of businesses, performance driven culture, one of the big three technology leaders

Cons

Tends to be a little focused on individual carreer success over business / team success. Still learning how to develop software at the speed of the internet

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