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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,836 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 53,836 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
      Oct 15, 2008

      Company at a crossroad

      Director, engineering
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Awesome benefit. Free medical is hard to beat! Microsoft has one of the most generous benefit called the "Giving Campaign" where you can contribute $12,000 per year and the company will match the amount for donation made to qualifying 501C. I don't know of any company that offers that.

      Cons

      Extreme bureaucracy and very hierarchal. Also, the company tend to hire type A personalities and that creates case where one who is the loudest wins out.

      4.0
      Oct 13, 2008

      Good company to work but slow career growth

      Program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      World class employees, technology and processes. There is a lot to learn from this innovative company. Compensation is reasonable but benefits are excellent. This company is great for initial college graduate who typically don't know much about professional software engineering.

      Cons

      You could be cog in the wheel of a big company. Hard to make impact initially as the teams are quite big and lot of cross team collaboration is required. There are lot of different functional role and you will be pigeon-holed into one of them - moving to different role is comparatively hard (and risky as well).

      4.0
      Oct 13, 2008

      Your mileage will vary

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Experience: - mature products - established processes - people Mature products If you come from college, this company is a great place to work at. It teaches you to look at the software creation in more established and pragmatic way, like building a house. Gone are the days in the 90s where there were deadlines to be kept and teams did burn through weekends just to keep them. Today, such things still exist, however, they are more on individual basis, and they are not the norm. People - generally, the hiring process assures that MS gets the top of the cream.

      Cons

      Pretty much the same things that make this corporation great, come with their negative load too. Size THis cmpany has grown (this is my individual opnion) way too big. WHile I am sure this is all justified properly by valid business reasons, the size weights on. Mature products If you are looking for brand new exciting new projects, they definitely do exist within MS. However, thera are good chances that you may end up in one of the big teams (Windows, Office, etc). While it is very exciting to work on some of the applications you have been using since childhood, maintaining them comes with a price. Words such "legacy code", "backwards compatibility", "cannot change existing behavior, even if it is being wrong" come to mind.

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