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
Sep 22, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

dynamic technology environment with a branded company and it seems like there are lots of opportunities both in Redmond as well as other locations around the world.

Cons

Microsoft is becoming more and more difficult to take the initiative without multiple endless studies and second guessing before approval to move forward.

4.0
Sep 21, 2011

reasonable

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

World class health and benefits program.

Cons

Very dysfunctional bureaucracy relative to other software companies.

4.0
Sep 20, 2011

Worried about the future

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great flexibility, decent pay (esp with recent raise for R&D), great benefits, nice work environment. Lots of oppportunity to work on interesting software

Cons

Terrible upper management, poor vision of the future, lots of waste and duplication of effort. Extreme difficulty with cross team collaboration

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