Microsoft reviews

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

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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Aug 9, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits! Challenging, fast-paced work, TONS of opportunities for professional growth. Great people. Knowing you're making a different in the industry.

Cons

It's in Redmond, which is a really lame area in general. Of course, they've made it very easy to commute from Seattle. :)

3.0
Aug 9, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits, and time off. Good management in the marketing org.

Cons

It is political and there is a lack of dev talent. This was a publishing company that is now trying to do dev and instead they focus on distractions outside the core competency of developing games.

4.0
Aug 8, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Microsoft offers excellent pay for relatively inexperienced developers. Even as a junior developer I was given responsibility, but I always had a mentor to aid me when I didn't know what to do. I shared an office with another developer, but I can't think of any engineering positions that had cubicles or open floor spots. There are many training sessions occurring and career progression seemed like a very formalised system - it's easy to see what you need to do to advance. Self-evaluation and goal setting is encouraged by managers. These goals and evaluations are used when determining bonuses or career progression.

Cons

Some of the internal systems seemed a little archaic. Internally, open source software, libraries or tools were viewed as hostile or at least with suspicion. I needed legal approval to use jQuery. My development computer was slow, even if I had a pair of nice monitors. 1 GB of RAM was terrible! A few of the employees seemed somewhat uninterested in their work - it was definitely a day job for them. Benefits like leave are tied to how long one has been an employee. Setting up an environment was not documented well in my team, and it was common for existing employees to not be able to help with this.

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