Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,864 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 53,864 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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4.0
Jun 12, 2008
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Pros

Pay and benefits are among the best in the industry. You can find endless opportunity if you are self-motivated and committed to doing great work.

Cons

Rain. Constant reorganization. Great ideas around the company silo'd and out of sight. Sometime success requires an aggressive, combative approach. Not good if you are quiet or introverted.

5.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Microsoft is a great place to work for because you get to pick what you get to work on, you get to work on cutting edge technology, and you get to work with smart people. Almost everybody is competant and most are very good at their jobs.

Cons

The downsides of working at Microsoft are the nepotism, bureaucratic processes and procedures, and an overall lack of agility. We are not very fast to respond to market opportunities and have not done a good job of acquiring companies with new & innovative technologies. In my view, the Yahoo thing has been mostly mishandled.

4.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

There are lots of opportunities. You are evaluated based on what you do and not who you are. The company is generally very respectful of employees and I love working with people from all over the world. In my current job I work with very smart interesting people and I have a great boss. The work is challenging and interesting and I have been recognized for the hard work I've been doing.

Cons

It can be hard to get decisions made and there is generally a pretty arrogant attitude. I wish we were more agile and simple good ideas were developed and released and that we would stay committed to ideas for along enough time to get them to work. The endless reorgs can be exhausting.

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