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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,790 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      77% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

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      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 53,790 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
      Jun 19, 2008

      MSFT's best days are behind it

      Group program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Microsoft has great facilities and comprehensive, progressive benefits packages. The intra-company opportunities are incredibly diverse and one can have a start-up like atmosphere (albeit w/o the reward) within a big, stable company.

      Cons

      Vista shipped. Seriously. I wonder how many members of the Vista team actually run OS X at home? Limited upside of equity, lack of a coherent strategy for the future. The whole Yahoo! debacle brings the latter point into sharp relief. I mean, come on, the consumer-facing Net stuff has largely been a failure and the response to that is to attempt to buy, at great expense, another failure.

      3.0
      Jun 18, 2008

      More and more bureaucratic and politics, less and less innovation.

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      You typically stands at the frontline of technologies. You have relatively easy and direct access to the source code, spec, and the people who wrote those code. You can get information outsider may not get. There are also lot of training programs and knowledge sharing through various technical discussion alias. In one word, best place to learn Microsoft technology stack (of course). You get chance to work with smarter people. You benefits from it by pushing yourself beyond the limit. Of course you also have to work with mediocre ones as well. Great benefits package.

      Cons

      With the expansion, more and more bureaucratic and politics, less and less innovation. Now there are plenty of people working on internal development and release process, rules and guidelines, way too many of them are invented. There are redundencies, waste of resources, both by developing them and time spent to learn and adjust to thm. Every couple of years, it is definitely there is new internal tools and processes replacing old ones with no good reason. Now it is evident that to advance your career you need to go with managerial track, where senior technical people now spend time do adminitrative work. Also people good at political game get promoted fast. People can argue this is inevitable to a big company, but no one can argue this is a good thing to a techincal company.

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