Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,692 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 53,692 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
May 9, 2014

Great experience

Recommend
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Pros

Great and smart people, great organization that changes every 2 or 3 years to avoid routine, some very good products, full ecosystem around. Top country management is able to listen and change strategy or tactics. Not too many levels of management, it is possible to find its way up to top product or program management. Internal processes are not too heavy for a company this size.

Cons

Size: it is difficult to measure someone's impact. This leads to some people spending most of their time working on improving their internal reputation instead of completing their mission. Also keep a reasonable work-life balance can be difficult.

5.0
Mar 21, 2014

Amazing journey

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Ever changing landscape, priorities, environment, industry. This is the kind of job and environment where one cannot be bored

Cons

Ever changing landscape, priorities, environment, industry. This is the kind of job and environment where sometimes it's tough to take a breath

4.0
Sep 29, 2012

A great company to work for.

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Huge opportunity for growth, strong focus on management excellence, wide variety of businesses and roles in which to work. The company feels as if it is re-energized and re-focused with 2013 product releases (Win8, Office 15, Azure, O365, Surface), and a commitment to be successful in areas where it has struggled, e.g. Windows Phone.

Cons

The stack ranking system has de-motivated a large group employees and made the atmosphere seem a bit more cutthroat.

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