Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,799 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 53,799 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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4.0
Apr 28, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Flex schedule - I don't get hassled on when I come in, leave or need time off. The pay is decent, enough so that I don't have to worry about anything. I get to learn about cool technology before others, there is a lot of that on the inside. The product you work on will reach millions of people, if that makes you feel better. It looks quite good on resume. You will meet some very smart people here, especially if you look for them. Alas, you do have to look. Depending onthe group you will have an office for yourself or share it with one other person. If privacy is your thing you'll love it.

Cons

The tools we get to work in most of the groups with are arcane - mostly C/C++. Some groups do use C# or even F#, so make sure to ask if you care. Also our code bases are huge and we have to matian a lot of backward compatibility where I work. It is not nearly as agile as banging out new Web two-point-oh cool app. Also there is a huge disconnect between customers and {engineers, marketing etc}. This leads to a lot of stupid or "evil" outcomes.

5.0
Apr 27, 2008

Interesting

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Vision, Deal, Empowernment and Accountability, ownership of projects, planning, social responsibility, citizenship, congruency, commitment to exclelence and improvement

Cons

Stress, hard competition, Work/liffe balance

4.0
Apr 26, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Abundance of knowledge resources, professional and career mentorship, scope for making great impact on the world, opportunities to switch to several different roles and products within the company, great working conditions, amazing place to live (Seattle area)

Cons

Lack of vision for the company at the highest levels of management, bureaucracy, not being agile with respect to competition from smaller companies, getting isolated into highly-specialized silos of work

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