Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,872 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 53,872 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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3.0
Jan 30, 2017

Microsoft became non American company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good benefits, good training opportunities if you in the right team

Cons

Too many employees, FTEs and contractors, are from India and too many Microsoft jobs in India. Very poor and artificial diversity.

4.0
May 12, 2016

One Microsoft? You must be kidding

Anonymous employee
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CEO approval
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Pros

1. Work with talented people, if you are lucky enough to join a right team. 2. Work for a great product which may impact thousands people, if you are lucky enough to join a right team

Cons

1. Your boss always makes you feel stupid. 2. Your coworkers will help your boss to make you feel that, as a women, you should stay at home with your child. (What a fantastic working place! They are so thoughtful!) 3. Your coworkers (most of time, they are males) love to use curse to build a bond with others. As a woman, you are unfortunately excluded.

3.0
Mar 10, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Once, there was great, exciting work, a commitment to quality and standards, and the feeling that you mattered. If you had the luck to be on a good team with a supportive manager like I was, the sky was the limit to what you could imagine and achieve. You felt empowered to constantly take on more responsibility, learn new skills, promote your ideas, and be compensated and appreciated appropriately. Even today, the people working there are very smart, and some are interesting. Microsoft treats its employees quite well. The campus is beautiful, the food is good, some people still get private offices, and the charitable match, tuition reimbursement, fitness, free commute and parking, and other benefits are fantastic. Plus you get a lot of prestige, respect, discounts etc. by working for Microsoft.

Cons

Anymore, Microsoft cares only for its stockholders and stock price. They will do anything, including cutting as many employees and programs as possible, making their products worse, and mistreating their users, to reduce costs and improve the bottom line. If you are old or female, if you work in content, especially if you have been successful and long-term so your salary is high, you will or probably have been axed. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. They used to hire "Microsoft material" and train you as needed, but now they hire whoever can do the job du jour for the cheapest price, then they will kick them to the curb too. No one's job is safe except possibly the upper management layer whose sole concern is to keep their own jobs and fiefdoms. Expect to work with lots of minimum viable products, cancelled projects, reorgs, office moves, and a weird Microsoft jargon that is mostly TLAs. Endless meetings and PowerPoints yet a lack of communication, wasted and duplicated efforts that can go on for years. Also expect your family and friends to constantly complain or seek your help with their Microsoft products, and to realize that a lot of the outside world hates or scorns Microsoft and with good reason.

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