Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,740 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 53,740 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
Oct 19, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Some fun and intelligent colleagues. Great compensation package (to try and make up for all the deficiencies).

Cons

Horrible HR practices. I was a Director-level employee and they ended up settling with me so that I would leave quietly without taking my experience to the press. They paid me 6 months of salary and benefits to keep quiet. And all I had to do was agree not to work there for two years.

4.0
Sep 17, 2014

Stack ranking not totally gone

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent benefits and pay. A lot of perks and discounts. Very focused on giving back, unbelievable matching program.

Cons

Cut throat, work-life balance sucks. Still have a system where they cut bottom employees regardless of performance and even if the market can't support hiring better quality.

2.0
Mar 11, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None that I can think of

Cons

1 bad weather, make you sick , drive you crazy, no sunlight for months in winter, which is Oct to next June 2 bad and dishonest managers, assign all non visible work to you and leave visible work to his or her favorite guy, 3 it is a popularity contest, the work is simple, anybody can do it, the question is how to get popular. 4 you are not valued base on you work, since the work is simple, it is purely up to the manager, they can give you 1 or 5 as he wish 5 not so smart engineers, most engineers are so so, , good ones are not happy with the review and left, the survivors are very good at fighting and politics 6 they completely ignore the fact that you made the system more stable, they think you are just fixing up things, and you have no value, ever wonder Ms product suck? 7 you are working for a dead rot wood, after a few years, you become thinking their way, which is a clumsy, clunky way, rather than a simple effective way of creating software 8 the building seems always full of car exhaust pollution, maybe because the cold weather, and the under ground parking, I am sure the CO is very high, make people very sleepy all the time, 9 nobody out in the industry does things Ms does, because nobody can afford the waste, if you think your knowledge can apply somewhere else? I definitely regretted working here, wasted my time

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