Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,846 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 53,846 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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1.0
Apr 8, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lovely campus, financially healthy, good only for fresh hires, windows is sold at cheap price.

Cons

1. Stack ranking is a killer that promotes people to work against each other, backstabbing, etc. 2. No innovation 3. Non-competitive in nature 4. Always late to market 5. No reward for technical skills 6. Poor decision makers in higher management. 7. Long release cycles 8. Bureaucracy and Politics overrrides everything including healthy competition.

2.0
Dec 26, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good Salary Nice location The work that you do may not be super interesting, but it's nice to see that your work is actually used in a piece of software used by millions.

Cons

Many unfriendly team members Strange work mentality The work environment is very unfriendly. Even though you are in teams, everybody at Microsoft really looks out for themselves.

2.0
Nov 29, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Microsoft is a place with smart people, good pay and good benefits. It's a respectable technology company (if not a leading one) and there's the potential for growth in broad areas.

Cons

In two words: the culture and the management. Performance reviews have been honed to a system that pits people against each other like on Survivor and people do lose their jobs because of it. Management and bureaucracy are stifling due to size and politics. If you're coming from outside Microsoft, their idea of work-life balance will shock you. And at this point, management seems dangerously out of touch.

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