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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,717 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      77% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

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      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      Microsoft has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 53,717 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
      5.0
      Jun 12, 2008

      Challenging work environment, interesting technical problems to solve, and great people to work with!

      Program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Autonomy, flexibility, the ability to work on technology that impacts millions of users, great work environment, good benefits, supportive and approachable managers, recognition for work well done, work/life balance, passionate, & smart people, the ability to easily change positions within the company and try out new things.

      Cons

      Too big a company, relatively flat stock price, apparent lack of strategy in the consumer space.

      3.0
      Jun 12, 2008

      Great place to start a career

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      For people just starting their careers Microsoft is an amazing place to gain experience. You will be involved with decision making and building products with huge reach. The workplace is a highly energetic one, where everyone is focused on one thing primarily, how to ship great software and products. You will learn as much about the business of software as you will about actually building it. To thrive in this environment you really need to be passionate about your work and the products you'll help build. You will be working with some of the highest caliber people in the industry and expect to be challenged when just starting out like you have never been challenged. You will start with little responsibility and will need to prove yourself to take on bigger pieces. In my opinion, the people you will collaborate with and learn from is one of the most valuable things you will gain by working at Microsoft.

      Cons

      The environment is filled with an unnatural distribution of highly intelligent and passionate people and is very charged. It's not uncommon to hear full on yelling when there are disagreements. In fact this is almost part of the Microsoft culture. This certainly varies from team to team, the older more established teams following this pattern more closely. This can take a little getting used to depending on where you're coming from. Every team has it's own culture for how they reward their employees and how they're centered. Dev centered organizations place the most value around the output of developers writting the product code. Other orgs are more equally balanced between value placed on dev, test and PM.

      4.0
      Jun 12, 2008

      Gonna have an internship? This is my opinion.

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

      Pros

      Pros: As an intern: Great benefits (Geared towards college students, which basically means free stuff like mini fridges, shirts, zunes, etc). As far as DevDiv is concerned (Developer Division), I was very happy with how my teamed worked, and treated interns. Did their best to help you learn, such as even sending interns to conferences (which I was quite surprised about). If I had to do it again, I would defiantly accept the offer. What was really awesome was working on a project that would actually get released to millions of users, which is something that can't usually be said for most places. The random events that they host for interns is the best part. Make sure to go to as many as you can.

      Cons

      Cons: Hide what it is really like to interns (which makes sense, but still...). Horror stories are heard about teams who treat their interns badly, or give them projects that are basically useless. Also pressure you about taking an offer at the end of the internship (which you want to be paid 10,000 dollars less is not a very good idea). Also is prevalent that they have an email discussion list that was made to distract interns from doing work. Kind've backstabbity in my opinion. Not very impressed with the idea. If they would fix a lot of these issues, it would be much better.

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