Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,852 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 53,852 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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1.0
May 23, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Great pay and benefits and if you like working from home they fully support the work at home model.

Cons

As a new hire I've never felt more lost than I have at Microsoft. I've worked at 2 other companies, one of them being a fortune 500 company with a big tech sector and while I have the most experience starting this job it is by far the hardest to excel in. It's hard to get others to help because everyone's remote, and the environments we work in is so convoluted and hard to understand. I've been here a year and still feel like I started yesterday. Also, there is a new initiative to increase velocity, but they also announced no raises this year. So basically, doing more work for less money. The worst is how much it affected my mental health. I've started seeing a psychiatrist because this job has been so draining and has caused depression. Just today I was hoping to focus on one area of frontend work, but then I got recruited to do some backend things which I'm not familiar in and investigate some logs.

1.0
May 15, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are good people in pockets left in the company Remote working (if you like that) Overall financial package is good

Cons

Limited career options due to long hiring freezes. Culture has and is changing Leaders promote and hire their friends in - no transparency on hiring Limited training - very limited external training Lack of empowerment

1.0
May 12, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Intelligent coworkers, good brand, universal tech stack

Cons

-Toxic management expects delivery at all costs -Maintenance and bug fixes aren’t valued, only KPIs -Career progression is almost entirely dependent on manager and what work they choose to give you. Creating impact outside of the scope of what your manager assigns you is seen as insubordination. -Low pay which is falling further behind the rest of the industry year after year -Incomprehensible quantities of technical debt created by sky high turnover and pressure from management to deliver KPIs quickly and then abandon them -chaotic on call rotations with little to no onboarding for new developers. Expect to be pages continuously for the entire duration of your rotation.

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