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
Apr 8, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

The company itself is very good and provides good benefits and perks, including free products at certain times. At times the job involved playing XBOX and running fun workshops for kids. It's an excellent company to have on your resume, and there is some potential for using it as a springboard to a corporate position at Microsoft (although I cannot say how possible this really is).

Cons

The pay for the position was laughably low given the requirements and expectations, and significantly lower than Microsoft's major competition. Many staff were temps brought on from agencies, who were strung along for months with no idea if/when they would ever be awarded full-time positions. Store management varied between absent, incompetent, childish, and downright awful human beings, and poisoned the working environment.

2.0
Sep 8, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Brand, labs, trainings, exposure, facilities

Cons

- A lot of bad and ruthless Managers - crooked and corrupt - Visible favoritism - Lack of transparency - Limited career growth if one doesn't get into the favored book, - Reviews entirely in your manager's hand and the opinion he and his peers project of you which means really capable employees could be severely punished and not so competent people get good reviews because of the lack of checks for the decisions taken by the immediate manager - Except Top man and a few others, the majority of leaders are also incapable, biased, responsible for a lot of the bad and have little management experience. However top man seems to get taken for a ride by these bad people. He is a man of principles and really needs to rein in these abusers.

4.0
May 20, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great employer, benefits, work time flexibility is great. Some orgs have great opportunity to grow as an engineer

Cons

Horrible HR performance review model, drives employees (managers included) to focus on covering their asses rather than being encouraged to innovate. Senior management severely lacks vision and creativity.

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