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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,869 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 53,869 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
      5.0
      Dec 27, 2017

      Data Center Technician

      Data center technician
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Benefits are amazing, Pay is reasonable for entry level

      Cons

      I can not think of any

      3.0
      Oct 30, 2017

      Challenging work with smart coworkers but emphasis on soft skills and politics at senior level

      Senior software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      good rewards if career driven and good at communicating visibility. Flexible time especially if you can deliver output with quality on schedule. Good middle manager can make the experience good and shields you from political randomization.

      Cons

      overemphasis on communication and politics and easy to burnout if poor at estimating/committing. Even though abolished in name, 6 month reviews still use old stack ranking in 2017 across peers and sister teams at your band level. internal engineering infrastructure is klunky and subpar compared to industry open source. Too much use of slow/buggy internal proprietary tooling. Tech stack is too much microsoft-built proprietary half-baked, buggy. zero/horrible documentation and too much reliance on email distribution list support for any layer of the stack. Your experience is a function of ability of manager and the team culture. Top contributors can get slighted by average/subpar devs during review time based on politics.

      1.0
      Sep 27, 2017

      Microsoft is the bully

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The company pays well, but maked you work a lot for you to deserve it.

      Cons

      The culture is a bullying, mibbing culture. Lots and lots of politics only little efficiency. I’m putting up with these for years, but lately asking myself if it worths it

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