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 1, 2011

Its a big company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good experience, lots of smart people, a few dumb ones. Good opporunities to learn and try different things. Mind the process though.

Cons

As a big company there is a Microsoft way to do everything - and sometimes it is a real drag. Don't look for nimble here.

5.0
Aug 27, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is a effectively a conglomeration of many small companies around the world and enables you to work in very diverse fields and locations.

Cons

You have to be comfortable working in a large company. Large companies have a set of constraints like backward compatibility and legal challenges that smaller, newer companies do not.

3.0
Aug 25, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of really smart people and challenging work, good work environment, good benefits, flexible hours and work arrangements, mostly informal although it depends on where you work.

Cons

Getting too big, political and bureacratic. Engineering culture is focused on shipping instead of on excellence. Internal competitiveness gets dysfunctional.

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