Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,901 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 53,901 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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3.0
May 12, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

New CEO has a great vision for the company and I am proud of where we are going as a company. The broader market; our customers, partners and competitors see us as becoming a company of innovation. Strong philanthropic culture Smart people

Cons

Massive amounts of internal process work to meet COO's scorecard metrics Field sales organization is driven by fear from COO at top Compensation systems have been broken for 11 of the 12 months of this fiscal year leaving sales teams with very little sense of how they are getting paid or whether it is accurate COO drives "accountability" down to the field sellers however hasn't taken responsibility or accountability for all the compensation system issues -- people see this as a major double standard

5.0
May 8, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits, dynamic and open environment, always leading edge technologies.

Cons

Poor work-life balance, sometimes happens to work isolated from the rest of the company (one-man-band).

4.0
Jan 28, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I had too many good years at Microsoft IT to give less than four stars. Although with all the recent layoffs, the loss of market share, the pressure of the stakeholders and still no clear vision of the future, it does feel like it will get worse before it gets better. My highlights: - Great people - Great benefits, competitive compensation - Great opportunities for personal growth: job responsibilities, training, mentors, etc...

Cons

My lowlights: - Pressure from stakeholders makes profit go before people - MSIT under constant pressure to change with no articulated vision as to what IT should be causes constant reorg churn, org tweaking, role changes, that just changes people from being the main asset to a pion you can just move around - Still no vision of the future. Cloud first, mobile first is so large and vague, it means everything and nothing, basically, it means we will go where the market goes instead of where they think it is going and what they want to offer.

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