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      4.1

      74% would recommend to a friend

      (798 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      56% approve of CEO

      59% positive business outlook

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      Software Development Enginner || employees have rated Microsoft with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 798 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Enginner || professionals have an excellent working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Enginner || professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      798 reviews
      3.0
      Jun 21, 2012

      Good company, your immediate manager has VETO power regarding your career.

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1. Good work culture. 2. Friendly and helping teammates(at least in my team). 3. Good compensation. 4. Cutting-edge technology. 5. Amazing impact with respect to the products developed. 6. Once you have a very good rating in first one-two years at the company, it is very easy to maintain the same rating. So in essence, you have to work and prove yourself in the first year as that mostly makes/breaks your career.

      Cons

      1. If your manager is not satisfied, or for some reason is not able to evaluate you properly, then you are in trouble big time. This especially applies for the first year at work. As the performance rating that you receive in first year, will most likely be either incremented / decremented by 1 in the next year depending on your performance. 2. Perks are not good enough in comparison to competing companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook. 3. In certain teams, the level of bar has been set so high, such that during the appraisal period almost no developers get promoted(applies across different levels).

      2.0
      Jun 17, 2012

      Work elsewhere

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Seattle area is a great place to live. There's lots of hiking and outdoor activities. Microsoft has a lot of social clubs so you'll find other employees with similar interests.

      Cons

      The performance review system is amazingly bad for morale. Even people doing just fine are worried about getting bad scores. Instead of a positive culture of aspiring to excellence, it's all about fear.

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