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      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

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      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 Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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      54K reviews
      4.0
      Jun 24, 2008

      Microsoft, a place for driven people

      Senior architect
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      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      ability to work on software used by a large number of customers lots of smart people, opportunity to learn a lot if you use it

      Cons

      very large organization, hard to steer in any particular direction competitive culture leads to local optimizations ignoring or hurting global opportunities

      3.0
      Jun 24, 2008

      Reasonable pay, but the work is not always interesting.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The pay is sort of ok.

      Cons

      There is a lot of bureaucracy. The alignment among groups is also not great. The groups do not work well together as there are few shared commitments and goals.

      4.0
      Jun 24, 2008

      Get back to basics Microsoft!

      Softeware development engineer in test
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Microsoft is a big company with many opportunities, and little worry that the company and/or group you're working in will "shut down". I know I can come in to work every day and do a good job, and not worry about one or two people who are running the company making bad decisions that will affect my daily life. I'm able to make long term decisions because I know and trust my employer.

      Cons

      MS has gotten too big compared to 10 years ago. There's not enough small teams working efficiently and quickly. Instead, the business teams tend to run everything without talking to the engineering groups to manage what -can- be done, and how long it will take to do it. Basically, there's just too many non-geeks running things.

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