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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,864 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 53,864 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
      Feb 20, 2009

      Great for interns, but leave later if you want challenges and better promotion chances

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Prestige. Having interned at a such renowned company makes it much easier to atleast land an interview for any other cs related job. They attract great talent from all over the world. No matter how smart you are, you will definitely meet people like you and even better, being able to learn and gain experience from them.

      Cons

      They focus too much on their technologies. It may be the best place to specialize in MS technologies, but if you want a more general experience that will be restricting. There is a general atmosphere and hype inside the company that "Microsoft is the best", which gets tiring after a while. Combined with the facts that MS is less diverse in their projects than other tech giants, the huge bureaucracy and the large number of ineffective managers unable to give the right feedback, i couldn't think of myself working there for more than 2-3 years. In conclusion, working for MS is great to launch your career, but working for a smaller, newer and faster developing firm is much more interesting.

      4.0
      Feb 20, 2009

      Not such a bad place

      Software development engineer in test (sdet)
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The technical people here are exceptional. I've worked with leaders and pioneers in my field much earlier in my career than I could have hoped to. I also like the breadth of products that Microsoft builds, so the freedom to move from product to product as my career grows is valuable to me. My coworkers across the company are also a great resource - I've learned a lot about several Microsoft products in great depth thanks to help from my coworkers. The perks are also great - free health care, a great gym membership, lots of paid time off, and of course living in the pacific northwest.

      Cons

      The work life balance is totally random. Some weeks/months I'll be able to do whatever I want, but some months I'll work 80+ hour weeks a few weeks in a row. Management attempts to fix this, but I've seen the pattern of poor planning saved by last minute heroics a few times now. We also have a tendency to get out of touch with reality. Not everyone in the real world has a quad core computer with 8GB of RAM and fast internet at home, but we get lulled into making that assumption because everyone we know here has all that stuff.

      3.0
      Feb 18, 2009

      Good to work for benefits or if you are passionate about MS products

      Senior lead program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1) Benefits - good legal coverage, best in the business medical, dental and vision benefits, excellent benefits from Seattle area businesses (and other top US wide consumer businesses) 2) Pay: good pay, great stocks if you have been with MS when times were good, decent YOY increments 3) Lateral moves: easy to move across teams, lots of start up like teams and then there are SQL, Windows, Office teams etc. 4) Passion for MS products: if you are like me who grew up using MS products you'll love this place. However you need to know how to play the game.

      Cons

      1) Politics - too much top down mgmt, lack of clear directions, too much power stuggle, power centers in new / start up teams 2) Some teams are too fast paced - work/life imbalance, power centers, too fast w/o attention to long term sustainence 3) Being able to use your vacation - 1 yrs vacation gets accured however, depending on the team you are in, you may be working way too hard. It's about personal dicipline as much as the team's philosophy on work/life balance. Work smarter not harder else you'll get burnted out too soon and then the results will be disatisfying.

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