Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,831 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 53,831 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
Apr 10, 2012

Great if you are in right product group

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great place to make career if you are in right place

Cons

Too many Org changes, confusing review process.

5.0
Apr 7, 2012

Challenging work with lots of smart people

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Work with lots of smart people. Work on products that are visible to millions of people. Great brand recognition, which is good for your career as a whole. Great benefits and a flexible work environment.

Cons

The company is huge, and inevitably this makes it slower than smaller companies. Despite best efforts to remove unnecessary process, there's still a lot of necessary process that comes with writing software that ships to millions of customers, which reduces perceived agility within the engineering team. Vertical career advancement opportunities are slow to develop.

4.0
Mar 20, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Microsoft respects its employees and accomodates diversity It has tremendously refurbished its review model to make it more effective

Cons

Every product is integrated with other products. This works well for the customer at times, but most of the time it causes a lot of overhead for product development

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