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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,809 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 53,809 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
      Jul 24, 2008

      Good Pay and Benefits, Stifling Politics and Process, Puzzling Senior Management Decisions

      Premier field engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Excellent benefits in the US. 100% paid medical (no prescription cost or copay for visits), although dental and vision are not quite as good. Great pay compared to my prior position. Nice annual bonus and stock awards if your review is good, although it isn't going to make anyone rich.

      Cons

      In field customer-facing roles (such as PFE or Consulting), there can be pressure to fill engagements with a resource, even if they don't have the right skillset. Placing a body with a customer for the sake of filling a slot doesn't help us or the customer. MSFT claims to value work-life balance, but I rarely see this in practice. My current manager is supportive of my personal goals, but we still have to make concessions for the customer. I suppose this is true in any professional services line of work, but I would like to see a bit more emphasis on doing what is right for the employee and a little less emphasis on bending over backwards for the customer at every turn. The customer is not always right.

      3.0
      Jul 23, 2008

      Excellent Benefit, Beware of Bad Managers & Lobbyism

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

      Pros

      Great Benefit, huge career opportunities , variety of people & technologies. You may come across many smart individuals. It's amazing to see depth & breadth of technologies & people they have. Each group/ organization is like company within a company. They have completely different working style, technologies , people skills & possibly evaluation process. Upper management & HR is really working hard to make it a better place to work, but I think they don't realize that real bottleneck is their hierarchy & too many managers. Company with great history & big name, so you can be proud of when you go home.

      Cons

      Having a bad manager (it often happens) can screw your career & growth at Microsoft. There is a clear lobby in Organizations like Office & Windows. I haven't seen such things in Live/MSN. I would love to work for this company if they get rid off leads & managers who are just playing games, checking emails & giving big management lectures w/o having any technical insight. Too much hiearchy comes in a way for company's progress & decision making process. Also, leads & managers tend to have favorites of their own w/o any specific work related reasons, so if you are not one of them then good luck!!! Also, dont expect much once you have joined this company, bonus & stock awards are peanuts compare to what you can get outside. In short, great place to work for, but filled with tons of bad managers

      4.0
      Jul 22, 2008

      I can haz free food like at Gogle?

      Program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The pay is great here at Microsoft. And at Redmond you really get to see a lot. The best thing about a corporation like Microsoft is that there're a lot of things, from hardware to software to research, from productivity to OS to gaming, from the sales to product management. IT's a great place to start fi you haven't figured out exactly which route you wanna go.

      Cons

      There's high stress working at microsoft..... management are used to grilling workers at meetings until they admit they don't know what they're doing, and kick them back to work twice as hard. There're not many team get-togethers. I'd like some more and that definitely would boosts our morale.

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