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 8, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

huge opportunities, great people, fantastic breadth

Cons

Once you get to a certain level, internal politics starts to kill you

3.0
Sep 3, 2011

Great so far

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits, good experience. Some very good peers

Cons

Too slow. Should be a lot faster to market

4.0
Sep 2, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Smart people Great products that span consumers, office workers, enterprises, entertainment, advertising, etc Wealth of experience developing complex software products Immense variety of products you can work on Respectful culture Superb Benefits and Workplace ambience Amazing research team that you can tap into for cutting edge technologies

Cons

Large and slow moving Behind on innovation Limited career and growth opportunities Risk taking and out of the box thinking is not recognized or rewarded Matrix organization leads to lack of accountability Organizational separation of R&D and Product Management leads to conflicting goals

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