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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,879 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 53,879 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
      3.0
      Aug 28, 2008

      It's a big company and will work for you if you can get on a high profile project.

      Lead software development engineer in test (sdet)
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      It's a stable company with plenty of money so there is good job security relative to many other tech businesses. The company provides good benefits and HR seems to have a vested interest in improving those based on employee feedback. Pay is fair relative to other companies.

      Cons

      The company has a poor ethical reputation which is conferred on its employees. Being a large corporation, all decisions come down to pleasing stockholders rather than making employees satisfied. Also, engineering managers are frequently promoted to those positions based on their technical skills rather than their ability to manage people.

      5.0
      Aug 24, 2008

      A great place to work

      Researcher
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      At MSR, you have a chance to work with the best and the brightest -- the caliber of people that would otherwise be on the faculty at a top-tier research university. MSR is pretty much the only surviving old-style industrial research lab in the tradition of Bell Labs and PARC. The compensation starts out good and becomes great as the stock awards ramp up.

      Cons

      If you are not in Redmond or Beijing, there is very little opportunity to grow beyond an individual contributer role, unless you move out of Research.

      4.0
      Aug 23, 2008

      Happy - for now.

      Program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Working with the latest technology and mature development practices is probably the biggest career draw. It doesn't hurt to have MS on your resume since everyone in the industrialized world has heard of the company and associates it with success.

      Cons

      The company has gotten so large - and is growing head count at a break-neck pace - it can be overwhelming at times to feel you will progress very far in terms of management level and visibility. The company still tries to maintain some sense of its entreprenurial startup persona, but the best most can hope for these days after 10-15 years is to be a glorified version of your present position.

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