Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,836 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 53,836 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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Jul 9, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Money and opportunities are only as good as when you get in the door...after that, unless you are a professional networker...not good

Cons

Old boys club...if you're not in...you're screwed at review time...even with patent credits

4.0
Jul 9, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1) Talent - bright, focused, motivated, experienced, energetic people from all over the world; 2) Resources - funding to work on long-term, ambitious projects; 3) Global reach - ability to deliver solutions to customers world-wide

Cons

Growing bureaucracy and focus on legal/operations management vs product development, management inexperience in dealing with resource allocation in the presence of scarcity/slow growth, excessive fragmentation of responsibility and lack of end to end product/business ownership

3.0
Jul 8, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is a famous company. Microsoft's name on your resume will open many doors for you. There are still a lot of smart people here. The paid is OK for me. I may get a little bit more in other big tech companies in the area, however, it is just not worth the hassle to change job.

Cons

A lot of red tapes to get job done. There are many layers of management in Microsoft. The company does not move fast comparing to other leading tech companies. We lost many good engineers to Google.

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