Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,746 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 53,746 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
May 11, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Name recognition, merit based opportunities, define future technologies. Most are satisfied with the pay. Great corporate culture. Some teams are more flexible (hours) than others.

Cons

The company has gotten large, hard to differentiate yourself, some old timers are coasting. THere are some politics. Some bad managers insist on playing politics, while sr. leaders don't value the political culture.

3.0
Apr 18, 2010

Nice company

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

MS pays you good salary, and after all, you make WINDOWS ! that's awesome especially if you hate linux stuff. No, really, the life in command line is the horribliest thing you can imagine. Compare it to 'click'-'click'-...-'click' - and, voila, you've launched a calculator!

Cons

The management stuff is painful, they're trying to hypnotize you, like 'we're the best, microsoft is the best place to work' and after all don't pay you annual bonus. Thats definitely NOT the best place to work, but still quite nice. Also its even faster to type 'launch the calculator please' in command line than do a number of clicks and try to find where is that calculator in the start menu

4.0
Apr 13, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They have very good campus. No state tax, people are friendly there and they have good medical insurance for everyone.

Cons

It is a big company. They put lots of work on Windows mobile. Hard to say where it is going.

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