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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,831 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 53,831 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
      5.0
      Sep 18, 2008

      Best place to work for computer software engineers.

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You have the chance to work on some of the most widely known software products in the world. What you are doing everyday is in fact changing the world. Ppl around you are great. Smart and nice to work with. If you are on the right team, work/life balance is great. Very liberal working environment. Great benefit. Star employees get rewarded. Lots of support around Seattle/Eastside area. Free gym and etc.

      Cons

      Bonus is not much. Team player may not be rewarded properly. If you stuck with the wrong team, lots of politics. Feeling lost in such a big company sometimes. The company is huge.

      1.0
      Sep 18, 2008

      A company drunk on money that sees us as numbers; but there are pockets with good coworkers

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

      Pros

      The people are extremely smart, motivated and fun to work with.

      Cons

      The company is not truly invested in growing employees to be what they want. Rather, they want to grow us to be more efficient where we currently are. For example, there is a long dry gulch between the the SDET and SDE roles. Even though some people have made the transition successfully, there is active discouragement by test leadership when attempting to make this transition. The company is lost trying to make money and has become scared to do anything innovative. The coolest products are handcuffed to profitability expectations before the idea is even baked, causing the best ideas to never bubble to the top. Since there is such a high technical bar, incompetence moves into leaderships to survive, which leads to the laziest workers in the middle. The review process is a joke, can you say bell curve?

      2.0
      Sep 17, 2008

      The truth and nothing but the truth

      Program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Big company and can move around within the company easily. There are lots of things you can work on. Lots of technologies and lots of benefits.

      Cons

      It's a very "click" type of environment. Either you are in or out. And the club that you want to be "in" with is management. Your performance will get you promoted slowly. But it seems to me the ones who are "in" move up a lot faster.

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