Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,879 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 53,879 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
Jan 4, 2012

Life in the battleship

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Pros

Lots of mobility and opportunity to work on different things. I'm on my way to start my 3rd career at MSFT. Super smart people working on hard problems.

Cons

While there are lots of smart people, low performers slow everyone down, and it's too hard to get rid of them. Sometimes we're too seperated from the real life and death world of business to have the same level of urgency that a startup or smaller company fosters.

4.0
Dec 14, 2011

Good Technical Company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Microsoft still has good talented developers and knowledge. Therefore, it can create new product shortly with good quality when the management layer make a good decision.

Cons

Microsoft leadership didn't focus Microsoft compitances and improve their technologies. So, MS waisted time for Vista, Bing and other staff..

3.0
Nov 22, 2011

Much potential but frustrating

Anonymous employee
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Pros

1. Good Management. Understanding. Professional 2. Flexible working hours 3. Room for learning and exploring 4. Good exposure to people all around the world

Cons

1. Little to no chance for guidance in learning and growing 2. Compensation with job scope/working hours not matching 3. Flexible working hours also mean working very late due to international time zone differences

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