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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,860 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      77% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

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      Microsoft has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 53,860 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 Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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      54K reviews
      3.0
      Sep 11, 2008

      Time to s**t or get off the pot

      Principal software development engineer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Scope - MS has the biggest scope of opportunity for a talented software engineer, tired of working in networking, try security, or games, or windows, or office, or robotics, or research. There aren't many serious industry players that can offer that. Location - The pacific northwest is a great place to work Attitude - When applied correctly (and they sometimes are!) the company's values make it a great place to work. I'm not really talking about the free soda or health care, more the open environment that can allow smart people to really work together and produce. Scale - maybe this is just scope in a different light, but the company is big enough and diverse enough that I can see other teams doing very varied work

      Cons

      Talks down to its staff - amazing, MS has (or thinks that it has) an effective recruitment and interview process, which is meant to bring in smart employees, and in my experience does, then having recruited all these "smart" employees the company in any and all official communication with them talks down to them like they are idiots. Grrr.

      1.0
      Sep 11, 2008

      Come join us - And spoil your career

      Senior program manager
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      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1: If you are laid back person and don't have any career ambitions in terms of growth, working on latest technology etc. then this is the place for you to work. 2: There is no vision in this group so you will not be asked to do any challenging task :). 3: Though working for this group does not add any value to your skills but you will still get the Microsoft tag in your back. 4: Life is cool as there is hardly any work :) 5: You get good benefits i.e. medical insurance etc.

      Cons

      1: You will work with most in-competent management. 2: You will not be promoted or get a good raise unless you know someone in the group. So basically there is nothing called "fair review". 3: Product group or all other groups always treat you as a second class citizen so basically "no respect". When I using word "no respect" means no respect. 4: After working couple of years in GFS, your resume will not be entertained in other groups within Microsoft as you will be marked as "In-Competent". So you will see people here who spent their entire life i.e. 8-10 years. It does not mean that they love the group or have vital knowledge about the system but it means that they know very well that if they moved out of the group, they will be on the road.

      2.0
      Sep 11, 2008

      It is no longer a growth company

      Program manager
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Internal news groups, people from all over the world, lots of diverse pasttimes amongst employees

      Cons

      expected to be on email 24/7 and implied work on the weekends... good technical contributors don't necessarily make good managers but the way to advance is through managing. the architect program really pays lip service to the advancement of individual contributors

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