Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,705 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 53,705 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
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Pros

You can have a major, positive impact on a huge number of people while learning from an extremely talented set of peers. The company operates and succeeds by listening to ideas from anyone and everyone, internal and external, then weighs trade offs and make product plans. They are also willing to change product plans as needed to strive toward customer satisfaction and adoption. Although multiple releases may be needed with a specific product to really hit a successful stride, the persistence and investment made by the company often results in great success for the company and consumers alike. The effect you can have on a large number of customers to improve their efficiencies and enable new scenarios is simply amazing.

Cons

This is also a positive, but one downside is that it is so large it is possible to feel lost.

5.0
Jun 11, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is hard to find anyplace else that gives you the freedom to get the job done than at Microsoft. There is very little micromanagement. The groups that I have been in focus on execution and getting stuff done versus the process around how you got it done. By and large you have access to great resources and minds to accomplish big things.

Cons

Creeping in of Bureaucracy. With the arrival of the Walmart / GE execs they are bringing more scorecards and process (six sigma) which theaten the execution focus at Microsoft. This is good to some extent but there are instances where some managers go overboard and before long you are forgetting that you are trying to get a job done vs. complete a process and fill out a scorecard. There are also the development methodologies dujour -- but I suppose that exists everywhere. It is also hard to get things done if you don't know people. There is a resistance to change at Microsoft so if you introduce new ideas or way of doing something it can take much longer than you woudl like to move forward.

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