Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,710 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 53,710 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
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

High performance culture. Merit-based. Basically, if you work only two hours a day, but are a performance monster, you are pretty much okay. Though technically, anyone like that at Microsoft would work 24 hrs/day just because they want to. It's a very fun place to work though.

Cons

If things have to get done, then they have to get done. If that means 20 hrs a day, then that's what it means. Also, some Microsoft employees are overly proud of working at Microsoft.

5.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Incredible benefits; stability; ability to impact the industry and the world through great (or not so great) products; rewards vary by group, but if you're in a good group, there is substantial upside in total compensation (salary + commission + bonus + stock awards + spot bonuses + contests); working in the U S Field is much different than working at corporate in Redmond (pros and cons)

Cons

long hours; work life balance is hard to maintain; Microsoft lacks focus; politics can be brutal, particularly at corporate hq in Redmond; quality of many recent products has slipped; Microsoft still often viewed as "evil empire" (sometimes justified)

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