Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,879 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 53,879 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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54K reviews
1.0
Aug 27, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Excellent heath care benefits - Best 401K matching in the industry - Global reach, impact

Cons

- Employee performance system doesn't work: you get good 'ratings' only if you get along well with your manager and leadership regardless of your actual performance - Bad managers: Still LOTS of managers that are jerks and bullies, and care less about their direct reports - Signs of discrimination due to age: In recent years, it seems that the company is trying to get rid of employees who are considered "old" (e.g. in past 2 years, they have laid off 4 (~15% of total) people on my team and they were all over 40 years old).

3.0
Aug 4, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

compensation and benefits Smart people

Cons

In the Spanish subsidiary people were working from home from Sunday after lunch Job required mostly throughput

3.0
Jul 30, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Excellent benefits & opportunities to network, plenty of supportive teams who value diverse backgrounds and experiences to work for, challenging technical problems — a real good place to get your start.

Cons

Big organizations with an entrenched culture of competition (not collaboration) and aging products make it difficult or impossible to make change for the better, depending on where and who you are. It’s changing, and it was changing for all my years there, but the process is slow and disheartening. Some attitudes and code based will never change.

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