Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,846 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 53,846 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
Oct 16, 2012

Tricky culture to get assimilated to, but still an amazing place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits, packed with smart people you can learn from, really strong engineering processes, tons of career opportunities for strong performers

Cons

Extremely competitive culture, "sink or swim" approach for industry hires, some stratification in upper management levels, slow to respond to industry challenges

5.0
Oct 9, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You can learn really a lot from the work; There are many career opportunities to choose; Colleagues are friendly and willing to help; The working environment is flexible; The compensation is good.

Cons

The work can be challenge, so it is quite common to work overtime; Communication between different departments can be difficult

5.0
Oct 8, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1) Good Pay 2) Good free goodies and all (winphone and surface) 3) Awesome scope to design your own implementations of small components

Cons

1) Schedules can get a little tight sometimes. Might have to work on weekends sometimes then, 2) Changing teams can be a bit of a pain.

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