Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,864 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 53,864 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
1.0
Jan 26, 2021

Pretty bad

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Pros

Relatively good benefits compared to an average non-tech company

Cons

Higher management is doing a terrible job. Things are always running in an urgency mode. There was a data breach, then hold a 3 day security training, there are incidents, schedule meetings. Discrimination issues? schedule a meeting and be done with it. No real long term planning. Morale is low. Some teams are working 80 hour weeks and some teams work 1 hour weeks.

2.0
Jan 6, 2021

A lot of stress and high load

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Pros

Nice compensation, superior stock program, superior health care, impactful products, clear career path, easy to switch teams internally, free food at premises.

Cons

Very poor work-life balance. Meetings scheduled after hours and close to EOD that you don't have to attend, but you are strongly expected to. Frequent and long on-call duty with many calls day and night. A lot of your time is spent on checking and ping-ponging new customer issues. Big project with hundreds of contributors and tight deadlines, the code changes literally under your hands. Fragile and complicated CI pipeline broken or blocked every other day. Office far removed from the centre with not very many restaurants around.

1.0
Dec 8, 2020

sweatshop

Recommend
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Pros

Public relations work better than Amazon, looks good from outside

Cons

Sweatshop, everything about pay is low, everything about visa is slow, everything about working is long and painful.

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