Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(54,017 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

77% approve of CEO

70% positive business outlook

Microsoft has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 54,017 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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54K reviews
4.0
Jun 11, 2010

Good employer

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great benefits Treats people well in general Broad array of products Encourages internal mobility

Cons

Politics Bureaucracy - when it works for you it is great, but can be tough if it is not aligned with you Lot of less competent managers have risen to fairly senior levels in middle-senior management

5.0
Jun 9, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Microsoft takes care of their interns. The pay was competitive, the events were well-planned, they really went the extra mile to convince us that this was THE place to work. I got lucky with both the group and project I was assigned, so other's may have had a different experience, but I found it both challenging and engaging, real work with real application.

Cons

It's a huge company, easy to get lost or feel powerless to effect change. Also, the triad of program manager, engineer and tester doesn't always operate at full efficiency. I was only there 3 months though.

3.0
Jun 9, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Nice technology, cosmopolitan people, good benefits, visibility (you know "I work for Microsoft")

Cons

Bad communication, lack of planning, sacred guys with no sense of the market. It looks like they spend too much on the wrong things.

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