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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,744 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      77% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      Microsoft has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 53,744 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
      4.0
      Jun 12, 2008

      Bring yourself to work

      Senior product manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      There are lots of opportunities. You are evaluated based on what you do and not who you are. The company is generally very respectful of employees and I love working with people from all over the world. In my current job I work with very smart interesting people and I have a great boss. The work is challenging and interesting and I have been recognized for the hard work I've been doing.

      Cons

      It can be hard to get decisions made and there is generally a pretty arrogant attitude. I wish we were more agile and simple good ideas were developed and released and that we would stay committed to ideas for along enough time to get them to work. The endless reorgs can be exhausting.

      4.0
      Jun 12, 2008

      Great place for people earlier in their careers

      Strategy and planning
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Microsoft is a great place for people that are relatively early in their career. The jobs have a high level of responsibility, the company makes a big investment in developing people, and the industry is highly profitable--which allows for growth and flexibility. The benefits are also first class.

      Cons

      Many groups at Microsoft do not seem to place a high value on experiences people get in other companies--no matter how significant. Promotions and advancement seem to be based primarily on how long a person has been at Microsoft and how deep their social network is within the company--not how long they have been in the industry and how effective they are in their jobs.

      2.0
      Jun 12, 2008

      Think of the company as "on-the-job training"

      Principal software development engineer lead
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - A lot of smart people still work there - Huge variety of products to work on, and internal movement is encouraged - Benefits package is excellent - Especially coming out of college, there are a lot of opportunities to learn and advance All of the above apply mostly to technical people (developers, mostly). If you're not a developer, the biggest pro is that MS will pay you for doing absolutely nothing.

      Cons

      - Senior management behaves stupidly very consistently. - MS is acquisition crazy, despite the fact that the acquisitions have _never_ worked. - Review process is increasingly arbitrary and random, as well as a huge waste of time. Employees and managers fill out extensive forms "documenting" their "performance", which are actively ignored -- usually the review decisions are made before anything is submitted. - MS is increasingly populated by useless people. Many organizations are so dominated by PMs that they are completely paralyzed -- they have an unlimited number of people who can distract developers while only a limited supply of developers themselves. - Marketing is way too large and way too influential. -

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