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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,860 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      77% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

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      Microsoft has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 53,860 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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      4.0
      Jun 15, 2008

      Getting old and boring...

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Microsoft is a good place to learn. It is big enough of a company where you can move around for a position you truely enjoy and have passion in. In general, people change role in 18 months. You can move up, across, etc. I have changed job three times in the last five years. Alhtough I am not getting promoted everyt time. I do feel that I am changing for the better. The review system is fair and "make sense". Some people complain that it is too competitive but I think it is a good way to weed out people you don't want to work with anyway.

      Cons

      Microsoft is too big and not nimble enough. It missed tons of opportunities when they could have been catpured with the right vision and priority. It seems like we are always following and not leading.

      4.0
      Jun 12, 2008

      Amazingly diverse opportunities, but don't expect it to be easy

      Lead program manager
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      Pros

      Microsoft has a great reputation. It definitely opens doors if you wish to engage outside the company. It also hires diverse people who are generally quite driven and interesting. There are also a plethora of products that one can get interested in, work on, play with, try out and just get involved with. The company is also growing older which means that there is more respect for diverse work styles.

      Cons

      Microsoft suffers from many problems of large companies. The original culture has been watered down by bureaucracy, rules, fiefdoms, feuds, and politics. The stack-rank compensation system creates the need for employees to create their own visibility resulting in people favoring appearances over output. There are also limited opportunities for rapid promotion as the slow product cycles, ranking systems and politics get in the way. In the subsidiaries, you work at a severe disadvantage to Redmond in terms of resources, working conditions, career paths, and general opportunities. Your pay, however, may be better in a subsidiary (although benefits are not kept on par with Redmond).

      3.0
      Jun 12, 2008

      Doing ok, but people are not rewarded for their achievements

      Product manager
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Flexibility around employment times - you can work whenever you want to complete the job. There is plenty of opportunity for self starters - you can take ownership of lots of projects if you are keen and you are empowered to do that. There are also lots of great people there - not much dead weight...

      Cons

      Salary is not commensurate with the size / impact of the roles. The internal process for promotion / job moves is bizarre. You cannot, for example, get a pay rise when you move jobs. At all. You have to wait quite a while as part of the standard annual review process. The review process itself is misleading, and employees are calibrated before they have their end of year review, leading to a mistaken belief that it is a negotiation, whereas its actually already done and dusted.

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