Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,739 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 53,739 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
Nov 23, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Great office space, perks and compensation, trainings and workshops, flexibility in terms of dress code, work timings etc. There are some people who are smart and efficient.

Cons

The flexibility part highlighted about Microsoft is mostly on paper. Except for trivial things like dress code, work timings the important ones like flexibility to work, express, innovate remains a distant dream. Everything about you is decided by the manager. Your relationship with him and the way he perceives you can make or break your career. The work is crap and extremely mundane especially in Microsoft IT (UST). A software developer ends up spending most of his productive time in pointless discussions, activities like bug fix, deployment, design review which are not relevant to him. The managers here are mostly biased and useless.

3.0
Nov 21, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Always learning culture - you're encouraged to learn and develop yourself and skills Sideways moves to learn a new part of the organisations are supported. International moves are also very possible.

Cons

There's a tendency to perform character assassinations as part of the regular 'check-ins' with your line manager throughout the year. Senior leadership who have been there for donkeys years are 'tired' and don't understand the world outside of Microsoft so they have a blinkered vision about the reality of choice that customers have Long hours. You can work from home but this normally involves being on back to back conference calls. After a while that becomes like a form of torture.

1.0
Jun 13, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people I worked with over the years were top notch. It's sad to see all the experienced talent leaving for AWS!

Cons

Abundant age discrimination happening across the board lately. They are working out long term employees and that is creating a talent gap - Sooo many are leaving for AWS it's CRAZY!!!

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