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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,887 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 53,887 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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      54K reviews
      3.0
      Feb 27, 2009

      KT's Microsoft

      Senior product manager
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      Pros

      Great benefits - extremely good healthcare plan, club membership, ride share, store, facilities. If you can handle intense politics and leave your conscience at home AND are concerned about rising healthcare costs, Microsoft is a good pick as an employers

      Cons

      Microsoft is a boys club and there are a few ways to be successful there 1. Treat your job as "just a job". No raises, no career development...just something that gets you a paycheck and those wonderful benefits. You can have a '9-5' schedule, take long lunches, show "work contribution" as bieng equal to amount of email you do in the day . Be seen, be social and be barely productive. This will ensure you keep you job, get prompted every 5-7 years and allow you to lead a comfortable, though professionally unsatisfactory life 2. Leave you conscience at home and condition yourself to be ethically 'grey'. I use the word grey since that was how my manager asked me to this of it. I was told on occassion that while customer is right, it is important to do right by the team.. you will be asked to "think of the key message not numbers", "gloss the details", "fudge the numbers". If you can do this, yes you have a career at Microsoft. 3. Join the boys club : Microsoft is a boys club. Those that drink together, plot together. And If you can crack the code on being on the inside AND do #2, success if yours.

      4.0
      Feb 24, 2009

      Your career at Microsoft is what you will make out of it. It is up to you to chart your sucess here.

      Finance manager
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      Pros

      Ability to move around different roles, projects, groups, jobs. Microsoft has so many projects and business groups that one can easily find a job or role that you like. There are also many bright people at Microsoft that you can learn from. Benefits at Microsoft are also top notch, especially for those with families. The company also is fairly flexible with work life balance and gives employees a lot of freedom to set their own schedule. In other words, there is very little micro management done at Microsoft and the attitude is more along the lines of manage your own schedule, just make sure what needs to get done gets done.

      Cons

      There are many layers of management, sometimes too many. You can get bogged down with meetings upon meetings in order to get buy off from all management levels. Not only does this slow the generation of new ideas, but it also becomes a drag on productivity as many times you will feel like your job's many purpose is to prepare for a meeting. And because this is a large company with many business groups, office politics and fiefdom creation can become prevalent. Finally, there does not seem to be much accountability at the management level so bad decisions often go un-punished.

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