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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,720 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

      3.5

      Senior management

      Microsoft has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 53,720 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
      5.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      Microsoft amazing place to work, however company direction needs to change

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The compensation is good bordering on great. The top performers in a group have the chance to make a large bonus (bordering on $20k) and also get a large stock bonus (an additional $20-40k, albeit vested over 5 years). The biggest drive for me is working on a product that millions of people are using around the world, and building technology from the ground up that many developers will leverage. Read: Visibility. Benefits are second to none. Microsoft honestly has the best health insurance of any company I've ever seen, as its A. Free, B. Covers %100 of everything. Beyond that there are a lot of great, smart people you have the opportunity to work with.

      Cons

      I've had the chance to work with two different groups at Microsoft and comparing the two is like comparing two different companies. One was like working at IBM, the other was like working for a web startup. Before picking a position at Microsoft MAKE SURE YOU GET TO MEET THE TEAM, as not doing your homework can show you the bad side of a company that is struggling to find itself again. In that vein, a lot of people internally are dissatisfied with the direction the company is going compared to other companies such as Apple and Google.

      4.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      Great place to learn and further your career; if you can deal with the bureaucratic BS

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Being surrounded by great people, great process, and inundated with "Best Practice" causes you to learn in a year what it would take 3-5 years to learn anywhere else. You also have the ability to have a huge impact in your customers/ your company and most manager's I've had are very hands-off which also helps you to help grow. Working in an environment where there is constant change is stressful at first but helps you to learn to deal with change; a skill that is useful for the rest of your life.

      Cons

      Work/Life balance can be a problem, depending upon the role. The compensation and benefits package in non-US subsidiaries is sub-par compared to the US Sub (especially the health care package). The tools and business practices are not standardized between the US and non-US subs either. The MS Performance system claims to be based upon metrics and to eliminate favortism, but when all is said and done, your manager will argue for you in the "Calibration meetings" if he/she likes you, and lesser-so if they don't. Favortism and the "good 'ole boys" club is alive and well; both in performance reviews and hiring. The focus on performance metrics has caused FAR too many people to lose focus on what is best for customers and the company; everyone is busy trying to check off items for their performance reviews and inflate their metrics instead of providing cusotmers with better products and services. The combination of the focus on metrics vs. what is right and the fact that many teams are geographically distributed and never physically see each other causes the team dynamic to break down and causes a lot of back stabbing. In a nutshell there's too much of a focus on individual performance vs. team performance.

      4.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      It's a great place to work.

      Consultant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The benefits are second to none, the atmosphere is laid back and focused on results more than brownnosing and politcs, to an extent. You can advance pretty far being techincal, without having to sell your soul and get a lobotomy to join middle management.

      Cons

      The stock has stagnated for 10 years. Lots of employee whining. Senior management seems to be in a Microsoft "Bubble" and have no idea what is going on in the industry. Many people focus on playing internal games and coming up with new policies and procedures that arrive to a great deal of fanfare, get lots of attention for 2 or 3 months, and then fade back into the ooze, only to be replaced six months later with something new.

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