Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,709 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 53,709 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
Jan 14, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Exposure to exciting projects and some great clients. Can be fun to be part of a large organization that is well-known.

Cons

There are a lot of people that have been employed there for years and are not good at their jobs. The company does not think about the long term impact of decisions that it makes and each fiscal year, each team has to shift their energy to satisfy what is on Ballmer's agenda. This leads to dissatisfied partners and clients and wasted time and money by teams that have spent a year building up a program just to have it all thrown away. Just think what MS could do if they had a vision and stuck to it. Overall - an extremely toxic environment with unethical people that will do what ever they need to in order to move up in the organization and get recognition.

2.0
Oct 4, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Orca Card -Free Beverages: Sodas, Milk, Coffee, Tea, etc -Exposure to new consumer products -Contact with knowledgeable colleagues

Cons

As a contractor: -Unilateral reduction in pay rate at any time -Must provide your own computer -MS charges a "Facilities charge" to all vendors working on site -Exclusion from ALL company celebrations, product launches and awards

1.0
May 16, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pay is fine I guess

Cons

Lack of career options, no internal movement options without going through full dehumanizing interview screening again, posts record profit quarter and celebrates by laying off thousands of employees, every mandate and priority only matters if it cuts costs. Gone is any impetus for creating innovative experiences, quality products, and environments that care about people. AI to cut costs and reduce headcounts and eliminate orgs, they don't hire the brightest nor best people, there's no accountability or consequences for LT and execs, they get away with terrible decisions that sink orgs and cost the company billions by scapegoating the teams under them so they get a bigger bonus by closing studios and firing entire teams that only did what those execs directed them to do. They force you to be on-call 24/7 for long periods of time with no support, bridge calls with thousands of random people around the world for hours and hours on end, sleepless nights with your phone ringing off the hook because they're not interested in improving anything, just maintaining status quo and making it cheaper. We stopped fixing anything more than a year ago and just piled on more half-baked "features" that makes the business "happy" while making every user experience worse, buggier, slower, frustrating and aimless.

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