Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,746 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 53,746 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
Sep 1, 2016

Sucks

Recommend
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Pros

There's free soda in the kitchen

Cons

Microsoft just can't compete in today's market.

3.0
Apr 13, 2016

Great pay, bad culture

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great pay and benefits, very smart people.

Cons

Terrible work life balance. Combative. Cultural fit demands you protect yourself from blame and push work to others.

1.0
Feb 7, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Very good health care benefits. Access to the inside story on a lot of technologies. Your teammates are very smart.

Cons

Middle management is full of non-technical people who were hired during the booming growth days of the late 1990s. These managers consider technical individual contributors (ICs) to be nothing but an expense. You are a replaceable cog. You have nothing special to offer that a fresh out of college applicant from a "Low Cost Labor Market" can do just as well. As a result, middle management will demand (not ask) that you are on call 24x7. Say goodbye to a decent family life.

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