Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,972 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 53,972 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
Feb 4, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Salary is near the market average, lower than in smaller software companies, but this gets compensated by a very good job security and a excellent benefits package. The working environment is quite good, in general there are a quite remarkable good humor, and management is reasonable, excellent in occasions.

Cons

With time, it become quite political in the decision making, and too big, so a lot of processes are too difficult to get through. There is also this incredible amount of middle management who feels compelled to ask for information all of the time. They always show up in the photo when something goes well.

3.0
Nov 1, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

MSFT is the crazy company, everything is huge and extraordinary, we spent million dollars in corporate events or marketing. The processes are very powerfull (even they are more and penible to support) and it's a very good school for learning politics, marketing and overlay management.

Cons

By MSFT it's "up" or "out". You are responsible of your own carrer and nobody cares with your own interest. Everything is for the company, you had to work even more and more and recognization is less and less. The economic model is very powerful, it's a model. The only problem is: where is the money? No extraordinary compensations, no shares benefits... Where is the money?

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