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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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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      3.0
      Aug 3, 2008

      Seen alot

      Director
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      Pros

      Great brand name to have on the resume. Access to marketing globally. Best benefits in the industry. Offices in great places to live.

      Cons

      Leadership is poor. Career advancement is the good old boys network on steriods. Pooer strategic design, poor execution capability, ADD in general is the culture. If you can survive it, it can be ok - but stay too long and you're unemployable elsewhere. Too long at MSFT makes you culturally poluted.

      5.0
      Aug 3, 2008

      Most engineers who come to work at Microsoft are pleasantly surprised

      Principal group program manager
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      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Many teams within Microsoft are great places to work, full of smart, energetic engineers who truly care about the people who use their software. If you end up on one of these well-managed teams, history shows that you will likely be pleasantly surprised about how much you like working there. Health benefits and work-life balance are great. Salary is competitive, and if you do well here (top 20%) you will be very well-compensated compared to others in the industry at your experience and skill level. Seattle is great place to live, home prices (while expensive) are much more reasonable than the Silicon Valley area.

      Cons

      I don't think Microsoft is getting the most out of the strong engineering team they have. There are many competing projects, each of which has slightly different characteristics and just confuse the customer. Marketing and branding are very weak, they are constantly rebranding our online services--MSN, now Live, now Windows Live, etc. The conventional wisdom that Microsoft is good at marketing inferior products is totally wrong at this point--overall, Microsoft does a bad job of messaging and promoting products which are actually pretty good overall (with some exceptions). There are some bad managers at Microsoft, like in any company. Luckily, it's pretty easy to change teams these days.

      4.0
      Aug 2, 2008

      Nice guy, but you don't drive the stock price

      Escalation manager
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      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      opportunites to grow, great people, great benifits. You can move between different orgs to continue challenging yourself

      Cons

      hard to navigate advancing your career without being really connected to your management chain

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