Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,790 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 53,790 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
Sep 25, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Mostly stable company - Some cool projects to work on. - You get to work on products that are used globally. - Decent healthcare. - Stock price is decent right now.

Cons

- They believe that raising leads and managers from the ranks will always work. The result is managers and leads who don't know how to manage a diverse set of employees and instead simply look to forward their career. Managers can be caustic and will happily play favorites. - Pay is below comparable companies - Work life balance is given lip service but never actually improved. - While working remote, people are often impossible to get a hold of unless you nag nag nag. Your management will yell at you for not being creative enough about how you nag people if you tell your management you're blocked by someone else. - Be ready to be combative with management. They won't always help you, argue for you or be understanding. Some leads will be good, many will not.

1.0
Dec 1, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits 401k match Vacation time Relaxed Good place to sit around doing boring work developing non-transferrable skills until you retire.

Cons

Culture Buggy closed-source technology Non-competitive comp Bad place to learn modern software development practices Management is ignorant of the how the world outside Microsoft functions

1.0
Aug 28, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

International company, amazing amount of resources for education of any type, looks great on CV, fantastic work equipment, absolutely stunning building, work-life balance

Cons

No way you are getting promoted, they keep saying you are good boy, yet: no budget, someone else was promoted, you are missing something (all pillars are very subjective). Lowballing base: if you initially have low package, it won't change in years. Enormous quotas for emerging/adverse regions. SMC management is extremely pure: no experience, no vision, feels like they were hired just because MS couldn't afford someone better. Gigantic pile of other 'funny moments': super low merits, lateral moves, SMC stock options are 10x lower than normal MS, quota numbers can be added on the fly due to 'adjustments', etc.

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