Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,786 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

77% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Microsoft has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 53,786 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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1.0
Jun 17, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

If you don’t mind to work at a place with bureaucracy, average paying, above average benefits, mind numbing task, very political manager, then this is the place for you.

Cons

At msft you can be easily pigeonhole to a single element of a particular task. All the managers are constantly position themselves to be on top of others. Most don’t care about the people doing the real engineering work. From the stock price for the last 8 years, people can see what Wall Street is thinking about msft.

1.0
Jun 17, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great brand name. A big place to work, so there are always lots of different opportunities and groups you can work for. Nice lifestyle in Seattle. It's a 9-to-5 kind of engagement so the work/life balance is great.

Cons

The culture and the people. There are a LOT of a**holes working there. Management just doesn't care about people, they just care about their own careers. No one wants to deliver "bad news", so real problems never get fixed. There's a ton of politics and in-fighting. Hard to get anything done. And, oh, yeah, the company just doesn't "get" this little thing called internet.

4.0
Jun 17, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits, casual atmosphere, diversity of product groups and opportunities.

Cons

Internal communication and bureaucratic process. There are far too many people around who don't actually know answers and issues are resolved by cascading through an often endlessly seeming bureaucratic web. Promotions often seem based on who's been there longest and has developed social cache, rather than who's most qualified and/or talented.

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