Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,699 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 53,699 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
May 1, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Microsoft gives you access to Billions of customers. This is something most companies can't even dream of offering. If you're the kind of person that likes to see impact, then Microsoft is probably the best place to work. The people are wonderful and the campus is beautiful. Moreover the work culture is very casual. I used to walk into work at 1pm sometimes, Microsoft isnt face-time driven and your schedule is given a lot of importance, all you have to do is meet your deadlines. Microsoft gives you access to the most customers and to the best exit opportunities in the industry.

Cons

The management can get a little beaureacratic from time to time.

4.0
May 1, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Microsoft is a company with resources and so if you want to innovate and you have an idea and can "sell" it in the organization, you can get budget and resources to do it. There are some really cool things that the company does both from a product/technology standpoint as well as within marketing. Sometimes people don't see that all because they only have a limited frame of reference from just one or two product experiences. But when you look at what Microsoft is doing to bring access to technology around the globe, or you look at some of the viral marketing campaigns happening, there are some great innovations. Many of the people are really smart and you can learn a ton. Plus the benefits such as healthcare are outstanding.

Cons

It is a very complex and matrixed organization so sometimes figuring out how to get things done is challenging. It's a paradox really where sometimes it seems things get done really fast--a VP snaps their fingers and people jump into high-gear and it's amazing what can be accomplished in short time, yet at the same time because you have to work across so many teams and groups, it can seem like forever to get simple things done because you have to drive so much alignment across groups otherwise initiatives fail without buy-in. It is also a "two-class society" among the General Managers and Vice presidents who live in one realm and the worker-bees who live in another. Rewards are based very much on what you get done, not HOW it's done so often times people trying to get fast-track thru promotions are not actually very good team players.

4.0
May 1, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There is no better workplace in the world of High Tech companies to achieve Accomplishment, Challenge, Stability, Experience, Flexibility. 1. Achieve accomplishment because you know that the products and services you build will most likely impact millions of people all over the world. This is a very powerful reason to wake up and come to work every morning. 2. Challenge yourself to be as good as you can be to contribute to a team with some of the best minds in the industry. 3. Develop a work and life balance that is not possible in most of the startup and smaller companies who expect your long term family and personal priorities be sacrificed for their short term gain. 4. Gain invaluable experience and discipline in building world-class software. This experience alone will make you a much complete professional and can be transfered to other places. 5. Flexibility and choice on the type of work, the specific project and the way of working that best matches your own interests and skills. Not to mention unlimited training opportunities, flexible work hours and balance of work and life priorities.

Cons

Lack of good "people managers", Troublesome process to recognize and award achievements, LAck of cross-group collaboration.

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