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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,694 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      77% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      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 53,694 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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      Reviews by job title

      54K reviews
      3.0
      May 12, 2008

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      Support engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You have the ability to move anywhere in the company and they will pay you for full training if you would like it. Many benefits for working but also personal benefits like paying for your home internet and physical fitness plans.

      Cons

      Management unfortunately is not the brightest, this could be just the division that I work in. They play favorites and sometimes are more concerned with customer response rather than the support staffs needs.

      4.0
      May 9, 2008

      A great place to work, if you want to have a steady, good job to raise your family; but not very exciting.

      Senior lead program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great people, widely-used products, great compensation package, job security. You can work your own hours. The people you work with are smart go-getters who will do what they promise. When you add up the stock grants, the bonus, the ESPP, the 401(k) and the superb health plan, there aren't many better places to work. If you're in your thirties or forties, and have a family to raise, Microsoft is for you. You'll have financial security and still get to see your kids grow up.

      Cons

      Slow-moving, bureaucratic company that is rapidly turning into IBM. Microsoft has forgotten how to produce great products, and the company doesn't begin to understand the 21st century marketplace. It's essentially surviving on the continuing profits from its Windows and Office glory days. The sort of people who work at Microsoft are the sort of people who crave stability and security, rather than creativity and challenges.

      4.0
      May 9, 2008

      Nice place to collect a paycheck, but I'd like to be excited about my job again.

      Principal development engineer lead
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Awesome benefits package especially if you have children. Good stability for a high-tech company. Lots of different things happening at the company, so can get a new job and/or change career direction without the extra hassles of starting at a new company.

      Cons

      I sense a lack of excitement in most employees. It's just a job. The days of getting rich with stock options are long gone, and nobody expects them to come back. That's the downside of the stability I mentioned as an upside. The company seems too big, like it's acquiring and hiring more people to throw at the wall hoping some good ideas will fall out. Definitely too many complacent middle-managers who get huge rewards for little accomplishment other than building a network of supportive lackeys.

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