Jul 31, 2008
Microsoft reviews
4.0
77% would recommend to a friend
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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).
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5.0
Jul 30, 2008
3 years and still lovin it...
Current employee
Redmond, WA
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros
1. Working with great, intelligent, happy people who can also socialize (this is a difficult trait to get from great engineers; most engineers these days are too introverted). 2. Benefits are fantastic. If you have a family, then Microsoft is the boom! As a single person, I still too benefited immensely by their StayFit program- Microsoft paid 80% of a $7,000 bill to get me slim and trim. 3. Most managers respect you and listen to you. 4. It is easy to find great, talented, and professionally experienced mentors. 5. Moving about the company...let me rephrase that...technical breath and deepth are strongly encouraged. If Microsoft went from writing software to being a library or a hospital, it's employees would get right to it and thrive. 6. Great, strong collaboration between all the engineering deciplines. 7. World-wide talent. Microsoft goes to great lengths to recruit arround the world and lobby directly with congress to have certain immigration/visa limitation overruled. 8. Excellent resources for professional developement. Books, e-books, databases, on-site and online classes. 9. There is a group/alias for anything you can imagine...singing, theatre, biking, knitting,,,you name it. It is easy to get connected. 10. MOST IMPORTANTLY, Microsoft is probably THE most open and accepting company in the WORLD for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender employees and their spouses. I know exactly the reason this is, but I'm not going to "out " any of the Senior Managers in this review.
Cons
1. Well BillG is gone. I'm still waiting to see if the new sucessors at the high mass can be successful and drive the company foward. Google, here we come! 2. Testers and PMs are more often viewed as the dentist in the room full of doctors. Devs need to be more supportive and sympathetic to their testers. 3. In a company of over 65,000 employees, it is very easy to feel unimportant or lost. But as long as you do your best and get promoted in your organization every year then things will be great. 4. There seems to be a bias between certains teams when it comes to salary and promotion. For example, two new college hirers started the same month, at Windows Live and Office teams respectively. Each at the same initial level with the same salary. After 3 years, the one in Office may have a greater salary and employment level than the one in Windows Live. Well you may say, the "successful" one is more capable, but astonishingly it has more to do with opportunity within the group you're hired into. The grass always looks greener from one team to another. The company however is making great strides to nomalize the ranking and promotion criteria by setting certain career level competencies and career model that is in use throughout the company.
3.0
Jul 29, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros
provides plenty of online courses, in class sessions, and a book budget to learn new technologies. They also provide you with an online portal where knowledge can be exchanged and discussions can continue on why one technology is better than the other. When on a project, the more senior folks will take the time to help teach you what is needed to get up to speed and move quickly through each task. In time you will be doing the same for some one else – this is truly a rewarding feeling. When you are given a job to do – do it well! No matter what the task is – accept it and do it well. Keep doing this and you will have proven your self to be a good worker. Accenture will help you grow by giving you more and more. As you complete each task – you don’t realize it but you are learning something new that will in fact help you with gain a broader spectrum of applicable knowledge – this is when Accenture will open up newer opportunities to you. That is, if you know how to apply the knowledge you have acquired
Cons
Lets talk about business need in terms of your worst enemy now. Lets say you just got off a project. And you specific field of interest is no longer as much in demand in the market. You end up sitting on the bench until a role opens up. But you cost the company a bit of money when you are just sitting around waiting for a role to show up. So after a while you will be approached with other roles which are not exactly what you had signed up for when you joined the company its up to you to accept or decline – but remember – there is no business need for the kind of skills you have to offer. And there is no telling how long you will have to sit around and wait for a role. Oh! And while you are sitting around – that is not going to look good when review time comes around. Does that mean it will effect your chances of getting a promotion? Well that depends on a whole lot of other factors like how much you delivered when you were on a project etc.
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