Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,739 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 53,739 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
3.0
Jun 8, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Good company vision, value and culture, on paper at least. 2. Good benefits, promote a healthy lifestyle. 3. Compensation is OK too, at least keeps up with mainstream. 4. Most people are nice, for real, helpful and kind.

Cons

1. No decent way to submit formal internal complaints. 2. HR is outsourced and won't help you that much. 3. Low chance for promotion and upward movement. 4. Fired for nonsense reasons, with no warning previously, no chance for appeal. One day out of blue manager told me I was performing "well below minimum expect level", "cannot complete task independently", "do not respect company culture", "disrupt team environment", among other nonsense reasons. I have no formal channel to complain, manger's mangers (M2) doesn't take me seriously and say I lack respect for my manager's judgement. Next month I was terminated for performing well below minimum expect level and have no way to appeal. Left a message to CEO on Teams the day I left saying I have absolute confidence anyone I worked with, aside from my manager, will say I perform just as well, if not better than my coworkers. I know it doesn't change anything though. I would sue for wrongful termination, but I don't have money or energy to fight 10 years+ lawsuit with MS.

5.0
Oct 23, 2017

Great Company with excellent benefits

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Change to work on emerging technologies Fantastic Benefits Most employees welcome collaboration CEO has reinvigorated the company

Cons

Older staff are laid off more frequently Layoffs seems to be the new norm around quarterly earnings announcement Revenue and profit is strong, yet layoffs persist for seemingly little business reason. A person is laid off, the job title changed and then a younger person is hired to replace them.

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