Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,846 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 53,846 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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2.0
Sep 8, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Brand, labs, trainings, exposure, facilities

Cons

- A lot of bad and ruthless Managers - crooked and corrupt - Visible favoritism - Lack of transparency - Limited career growth if one doesn't get into the favored book, - Reviews entirely in your manager's hand and the opinion he and his peers project of you which means really capable employees could be severely punished and not so competent people get good reviews because of the lack of checks for the decisions taken by the immediate manager - Except Top man and a few others, the majority of leaders are also incapable, biased, responsible for a lot of the bad and have little management experience. However top man seems to get taken for a ride by these bad people. He is a man of principles and really needs to rein in these abusers.

4.0
May 20, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great employer, benefits, work time flexibility is great. Some orgs have great opportunity to grow as an engineer

Cons

Horrible HR performance review model, drives employees (managers included) to focus on covering their asses rather than being encouraged to innovate. Senior management severely lacks vision and creativity.

1.0
May 1, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It once was a great company. Steve Ballmer needs to leave.

Cons

The "Microsoft Deal" has changed. The stock has been flat for 10 years. Benefits are changing next year. The forced distribution curve was brought back. You can meet your commitments, but are competing against your peers based on business impact. You can receive a low rating if you are not given good projects to demonstrate impact. It is unfair and can be very political who receives good projects. Terrible work/life balance.

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