Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,882 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 53,882 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
2.0
May 31, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

One of the best places to have a worldwide positive effect on software. There's opportunity here that, while rare and viciously fought over, is uniquely powerful.

Cons

Extremely negative environment with common backstabbing and misrepresentation. Stack ranking is more hidden, but still drives evaluations where success is not so much based on good software, but on image management and popularity. There's too much fear and really not much far reaching innovation.

2.0
May 27, 2017

Associate Consultant

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Attractive pay, insurance and facilities

Cons

Work life balance sucks, Lot of politics in MSGD Hyderabad branch. Manager will make you work on multiple projects simultaneously to get more billing which ruins to your work life. Lot of stress. You can't say no to work on multiple projects otherwise your manager blackmails you of bad rating and termination some times. Unethical practices have been following a lot like, some US federal govt projects expects team member to work on only their projects which Microsoft agree's during the contract. But Microsoft Hyderabad doesn't care about it. It tries to put team members of these federal govt project members in other projects as well by cheating the Federal Govt. This is going to bust at some point. When it happens it is going to bring a lot of bad reputation on Microsoft Hyderabad's (MSGD) part.

1.0
May 19, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is decent, lots of new tech to learn all the time? Brand recognition.

Cons

Leadership is completely incompetent in services. They are changing constantly, creating havoc, and appear completely deaf to the issues they create. Their internal Poll system that measures happiness seems potentially fake, as the results continue to be way higher than the sentiment. If you see Services in the job title or management chain, get far, far away. Anand has ruined the organization and continues to drive it into the ground. Benefits shrink almost every year, and things as simple as getting a new pc now takes 3 years. They only follow, never lead, and love process and policy, I mean love it. Whoever mentioned it's only a great place for lawyers is dead on.

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