Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,879 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 53,879 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
Jul 11, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Used to be one of the best, but now no pro for the company.

Cons

Internal competition. Lots of incompetent managers from South Asia. Zero star should that be possible.

1.0
May 24, 2015

Generally a good company, but watch out for toxic districts

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Super well paying jobs with great benefits, better than most other companies out there. If you are social, well-liked among the upper management, and can play company politics well, you will be successful here. Best advice is not to advance too quickly, and be mediocre, and you will have a great home life as well. If you give too much and people start expecting too much of you, you will get taken and left out to dry. Other than NY Metro, mid-level career progression is actually quite good, and you can build a name for yourself amongst the technical side of the business.

Cons

Being at Microsoft for almost ten years and around several regions and teams, New York Metro sales is probably the most toxic of all U.S. teams from which you should avoid. The bullying culture is still very much alive, and unless you can also be a jerk, you won't survive here. In general, people lack passion for what they do, though they have passion for their own personal lives, which is covered up by the compensation. If you have Microsoft on your resume for too long, it might actually hurt you, because you're too bought into the ecosystem and less desirable for other companies, especially startups. Good employees are often let go or allowed to walk away, while bad managers are protected by their managers and HR.

1.0
May 12, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Besides of tons of training available mostly videos and PowerPoint decks, nothing that is worth.

Cons

It is a decadent company, whose employees are only worried about their careers and compansation. The dog eat dog culture is still there although the calibration process is not there anymore. Management is snobish and you need to kiss high if you want to grow in your career.

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