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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,830 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 53,830 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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      5.0
      Jun 21, 2008

      Great company... if you're in Redmond.

      Engineering manager
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      Pros

      Resources on the intranet are tremendous. People are (for the most part) very smart. Software/Product discounts are great.

      Cons

      If you're in the satellite development centers (like Silicon Valley) the opportunities for moving to a different business unit are limited. If I were in Redmond (or willing to move there) there are a dozen jobs that I'd love to take, but not in the bay area. That's not particularly Microsoft's fault. They have to be based somewhere, but it's the reason I ultimately left. The job I was in wasn't going anywhere and there weren't (at the time...2006) any other interesting opportunities, so I left. I think the MS presence in the valley is growing, so maybe things are different now. I'd go back.

      2.0
      Jun 20, 2008

      Kool-Aid Not Good for Future

      Senior product manager--bg
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Microsoft is interesting in that it presents some of the most difficult challenges a huge company faces in this era. I found many of Microsoft's employees particularly outside of Redmond to be stellar and delightful collaborators.

      Cons

      The culture is BROKEN. This place will suck the soul out of you. I think all of Microsoft's challenges essentially are a result of a company not growing up. It is inbred, the senior management layer is peopled with individuals who 1. likely started their career at MS in 198X or 199X, and 2. haven't seen what's going on in the rest of the world. They all have the same orthodoxies and it's killing them. A huge piece of not growing up is holding on to the management philosophy that essentially pits people against each other to survive and be promoted. Microsoft never gets 1+1=3 because there's really no such thing as a team there.

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