Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,741 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 53,741 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
Feb 22, 2010
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Pros

Cutting edge of software and technology, some great people, pleasant campus environment, great for the resume

Cons

Astonishing inequity in treatment, routine victimisation and bullying of productive staff members, higher than average proportion of political workplace psychopaths, unbelievable levels of internal reporting, noise and trivial requests from management with zero notice, no regard for work-life balance, network-centric rather than merit-centric approach to advancement, no constructive management, intimidation by junior and middle managers, ridiculous enforcement of field training deadlines ahead of corp mandated deadlines to improve brand of local management.

3.0
Nov 3, 2009
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Pros

Good pay and benefits; good work/life balance on my team, but it depends what team you're on. It still looks good on a resume.

Cons

Juggernaut career climbers who destroy a group to make themselves look good. A company who's only strategy is to draft behind innovators and maintain profits for the big shareholders. Impossible to get anything done without getting buyoff from tons of people. Employees are incredibly unaware of what's going on in the rest of the industry. Strong sense of entitlement.

1.0
Jun 4, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Microsoft is this world's largest software development company, this looks good to future employeers. Employees receive discounts when purchasing normally overpriced software.

Cons

You have to pay for food and snacks. Not a comfortable work environment, they discourage peaceful and collaborative working. They do not promote based on quality of work instead they promote based on popularity and their review system. Hard work is NEVER rewarded here, instead employees are promoted when they do less work and leave early. At Microsoft, if one person in management, regardless of their direct connection to you, doesn't like you, your next review will be damaged. I've received only one 0.5% raise in nearly 5 years of service. Microsoft has horrible retention of long term employees. Management is free to ridicule employees. They 'claim' raises and promotions can happen any time but I have never seen anyone recieve a promotion or raise outside of once a year.

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