Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,880 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 53,880 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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54K reviews
4.0
May 1, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Plenty of different things go on there. From software products to Hardware products. Along the HW products side, like the Xbox, there are full low level SW tasks for SW dev types to upper level design stuff (e.g., user interface,etc.) ... a full range where a person can learn and grow into. Similar things with hardware designers. Can work with state of the art CPUs and GPUs to low level controllers ... again a large space to pick work from. Also exposure to products that are produced in the millions per year. Not many places to work that provide the experience with things on that scale.

Cons

Although work/life balance is talked about a lot. In reality, management is so poor in scheduling products, workers tend to always be behind and need to work extra hours to get done on time.

3.0
Apr 30, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Many of the projects at MIcrosoft are important to the computer industry. The chance that you will get to work on something that people will actually use is good. There is also a wide variety of opportunities there. Often, you can move around until you find the right team/mananger/project.

Cons

There are alot of meetings/politics/odd management to deal with. One bad manager can ruin you if you are not careful. The review process can be arbitrary, or worse, it can encourage screw-your-collegue thinking.

2.0
Apr 29, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of smart individuals and great benefits

Cons

As the company has started to focus internally and fight between groups as it has grown larger and the business has started to weaken. This internal focus and looking for someone to blame will only make things worse. To grow the company needs to focus on customers again.

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