Microsoft Principal Program Manager reviews

3.8

78% would recommend to a friend

(199 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

53% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Principal Program Manager employees have rated Microsoft with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 199 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Principal Program Manager professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Principal Program Manager professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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199 reviews
5.0
Jul 24, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay, bonus, stock. My team was easy to work with.

Cons

Layoffs. At principal level did not see a lot of opportunity for advancement.

2.0
Jul 21, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you're at the bleeding edge of AI and the supporting technology, it's where the money is. Copilot be damned, Azure OpenAI will be a force.

Cons

If you were a part of the 'old guard', the legacy products, you're being cut to bare metal on resources to fund the juggernaut. That includes things like security & privacy efforts, supportability, anything resembling quality of life for employees. We even had a Satya direct tell us anything less than Enterprise customers weren't a priority any longer, it was AI and the Enterprise customers for the foreseeable future.

3.0
Jun 26, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Great benefits - Smartest employees - Access to tools

Cons

- Fear throughout the company - Arbitrary (algo) based firing - CFO is also the chief product officer. Her behavior doesn't match the rhetoric.

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