Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,860 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 53,860 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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4.0
Nov 21, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are tremendous opportunities to make lateral moves within the company - get bored of a given role, org, product, or customer segment and the sheer size and internal policies conducive to internal transfers guarantee the opportunity for variety in your MSFT career. Also impact - the vastness of the customer base means that even "small" products at Microsoft often touch on millions of customers. It's rare to find an organization where even junior staff can see direct impact of their work on such an immense scale.

Cons

Size breeds laborious process and overbearing politics - likely the same in any company with over 80,000 employees. It becomes a significant challenge to get meaningful work done, as you end up spending huge percentages of your time churning through v-teams, lining up stakeholders, navigating ownership issues, and the like.

4.0
Nov 20, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Excellent pay and benefits compared to the competition.

Cons

If you do not work in Redmond or relocate your career advancement is limited.

3.0
Nov 19, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

In Microsoft, one can always get to use the most up to date techniques, which is great for gaining useful experiences, and build up resume. As a matter of fact, one could use all Microsoft products for free, and therefore gaining experiences without have to buy them. The company also offer good benefit plan, good administrative aids. Free coke, pool and foosball. Free Xbox games. (But no free Age of Empire... )

Cons

Despite the great company value and culture, inexperienced management could result in bad practices which make every one suffer. People get less freedom to do different jobs they would like to try.

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