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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,848 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      77% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

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      Microsoft has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 53,848 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
      Dec 14, 2008

      Great place to build a stable work foundation.

      Instructional designer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Big organization with alot of actvity and scale. Great for a long time career or to cap a career. Super benefits package and coverage with some innovative perks.

      Cons

      Good for the specialist not great for a jack of all trades or someone who thrives on change. Takes a long time to really get anywhere or to advance. Company is pretty slow moving and methodical. Tough to be in this industry and feel like you are on the edge of technology in this environment.

      3.0
      Dec 13, 2008

      Safe harbor for now

      Finance director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Benefits, growth opportunities, range of jobs. Job security.

      Cons

      Competitive and confrontational culture - not much consensus building or collaboration. Big matrix results in lots of duplicative efforts and territory wars

      3.0
      Dec 12, 2008

      Opportuity for change

      Business development director
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great entry level opportunities, good starter (company) name for a resume. Depends on the dev group, but the tools and testing are better than most other software companies - you won't be able to take all the methodologies away to a start-up... People definitely return your professional phone calls - "Microsoft" still has "pull" in the general business community. Great benefits, though the benefits aren't terribly better than others - Microsoft has a $0 co-Pay, whereas, at least to me, a $5 co-pay is functionally the same. Microsoft has some of the biggest brands in the industry: nice to say "...I improved calculation speed in Excel by 175%..." if you get the opportunity to work on a big product. Many of the the people are first class, really decent.

      Cons

      Intensely political; managers are distracted from the essential work of managing by political considerations, "Managing upward" is the key to career success - lot's of attitude without credible results. Bad decisions are made regularly because short-term thinking dominates. A very strongly hierarchical culture - that is too big for hierarchies to be effective. Lot's of teams going nowhere: not cut, not funded for success - career deadzones. Deadening series of meetings: coordination is necessary, but heaven forbid there a technology to cut away the endless meetings that sap productivity. Poisonous managers, as probably has to be expected in a culture that has so many, but offers no training, except for how to avoid lawsuits.

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