Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,745 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 53,745 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
Dec 1, 2016

Leadership create unnecessary politics

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Salary, stock, US led events. Culture in other offices (apart from Australia) is really good. Good flexibility but the workload is really high so you cant always take advantage of it. Business class travel for long haul when you are senior.

Cons

Insincere leadership that lacks authenticity in Australia. They are all too busy writing their own publicity and reading it. Culture in Australia not the same as other offices, is very political and it all starts & ends with the current MD. It is not a culture that embraces differences so if you want to join, be prepared to suck up to MD, adapt your communication style to 'their way', do lots of self promotion and get really good at understanding how to manipulate the scorecard to "look good" like the others.

2.0
Sep 21, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Salary, infrastructure and other employee benefits

Cons

Full of politics, either very little work or too much of bad quality work. Unnecessary competition within employees. Hostile, humiliating environment. The managers will keep bullying you to work more and more, still will never be satisfied. And he has the full right to spoil your connect even if you have received good feedback from other colleagues. So if you aren't buttering your manager, or happen to get under a hot-headed manager be ready to be thrown out of the company. The answers you will get after that is Microsoft is undergoing restructuring. Very cruel way of firing. They target some people, humiliate them the whole year, make their "connect" bad, extract as work as they want, then ask them to give resignation, else undergo PIP which is targeted at termination.

4.0
Sep 1, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cache of working for MS Annual training in Seattle Frequent refresh of kit and tech toys like phones and tablets

Cons

Inner circle who have been there 20+ years End of yea rating system that depends upon some abstract concept of 'impact' and what your colleagues think of you strange working practices that are too ingrained to change Lots of internal admin Constant risk of redundancy

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