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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,819 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 53,819 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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      54K reviews
      2.0
      Jun 25, 2008

      If you wait your golder retire years, best place to wait

      Software development engineer in test (sdet)
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      Pros

      If you want to have a decent place to work and just simply wait for your golden years, and retire peacefully, this is the place to be. You'll be in a cozy management position with no responsibilities and no accounting for your actions, or on an individual contributor role, where you'll be only in meetings and bullshitting others. They have good benefits, pretty safe environment, in a lot of ways similar to government jobs. In short, it's great for people that just want a steady 9 to 5 , relaxed environment and job security with decent benefits added to the soup.

      Cons

      Highly political, full of incompetent low and middle managers. Some team are better some are worse

      4.0
      Jun 25, 2008

      Great company, but keeping motivated is hard

      Senior lead program manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The best reasons to join Microsoft are the sheer number of talented people around, the incredible reach our products have, and the amount of available resources (money, equipment) to build pretty much anything. Where else will you build a 500 person team (with at least 300 very good people) in one year and get a couple hundred million dollars to deliver a new product? I have been through that process twice in my eight years with the company. Twenty percent time is crap. At Microsoft you can move across groups every 12 months if you want and I don't know of any other place where you have so many different products and team cultures. From very slow, calculated teams like SQL to extremely nimble and fast (and startup crazy-like) teams like Search and AdCenter.

      Cons

      It is a large company so new projects will only impact the stock value if they are multi-billion dollar projects. Selling U$100 million dollars on your first year is great, but not enough at Microsoft. That leads to diminished innovation. The stock sucks; for instance, SQL grows 20% year over year and the the team sees what? Flat stock - let's talk about demotivation. Employees receive a barrage of negative media. The vast majority of Microsoft employees are ethical, hard working, care deeply about customers and are self-critical to a fault. What do they get in return? Almost unanymous negative feedback about monopolistic behavior and absolute focus on negative reviews. Legacy support. Microsoft chose to create an ecosystem and a lot of people got rich in the process. The downside? Try to change something in Windows and see what breaks. Then see who the public blames for it. Microsoft has too many mid-management layers. The message from the top gets distorted and morphed to accomodate the mid-management agenda. And feedback from the bottom gets muffled and morphed to support that very same agenda. It is somewhat unfortunate the the middle layer is more concerned about keep things moving than to innovate. I also see no vision coming out that middle management layer. It is harder to collaborate with certain internal groups (e.g. Office, Live Search) than with competitors.

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