Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,740 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 53,740 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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3.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Flexibility around employment times - you can work whenever you want to complete the job. There is plenty of opportunity for self starters - you can take ownership of lots of projects if you are keen and you are empowered to do that. There are also lots of great people there - not much dead weight...

Cons

Salary is not commensurate with the size / impact of the roles. The internal process for promotion / job moves is bizarre. You cannot, for example, get a pay rise when you move jobs. At all. You have to wait quite a while as part of the standard annual review process. The review process itself is misleading, and employees are calibrated before they have their end of year review, leading to a mistaken belief that it is a negotiation, whereas its actually already done and dusted.

5.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Cool technology, great management. The benefits the the best!

Cons

Very demanding enviroment. You work hard and are paid well. The expectations are very high.

3.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Industry wide recognition, first hand experience with real software development company, very rich infrastructure, large number of internal discussion groups, very good library, benefits such as Prime card, nice company meeting, very diversified career opportunities, opportunities to do transfers, ability to reach out people actually making Windows, office etc, very large R&D, very good medical insurance, extremely competitive mentality

Cons

Due to increase in size, the whole company is out of control. Tons of people who got recruited in last decade are mediocre at best. Management chain is generally non-visionary average types who just can't compete. The net result is that in 5 years this company will be stalled if nothing is done. Then many of reasons of work will diminish. So in short, future is dark. Other downside is uncreative average to bad food in cafeteria.

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