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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,869 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      77% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Senior management

      Microsoft has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 53,869 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
      3.0
      Mar 16, 2009

      Many Pros and Many Cons

      Finance director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Benefits, large scope of job opportunities. If you get on the right track w/good mentors, you can move overseas and usually find your way back to Redmond. I like the casual atmosphere and relatively flat organization.

      Cons

      Matrix structure, lots of overlap in jobs thus lots of contention. Lack of respect for colleagues, subordinates, and even superiors - this all comes from the top down (Bill G., Steve B.) and how they yell and rip into management at executive reviews. It filters down into the broader org.

      4.0
      Mar 15, 2009

      SteveB has failed to instill a culture suitable to the challenges in this market - GE is the wrong model.

      Program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Microsoft is still the leader in many of the most important markets even if its influence is declining.

      Cons

      Downside #1: 5-10% chance of getting fired each year (no I wasn't fired, but it's like an axe over the head of everyone but the so-called top 30%). Downside #2: the company is stumbling to keep up with the pace of Web 2.0.

      2.0
      Mar 15, 2009

      Dysfunctional Giant - the Tower of Babylon and no common language, a follower instead of an inventor

      User experience designer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Benefits, Security, many brilliant people

      Cons

      Not innovative, follower, does not listen to the brilliant people, internal spending on internal marketing is a waste of time and resources, politics, backstabbing, fear, infighting between PMs, focus on climbing corporate ladder instead of cutting edge innovation, inefficiency, unnecessary overlaps, one department doing same work as the next without communication and sharing, constant re-invention of the wheel

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