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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,831 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      77% approve of CEO

      71% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      3.4

      Senior management

      Microsoft has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 53,831 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
      5.0
      Jun 23, 2008

      Great place to make an impact!

      Partner architect
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      In Microsoft you get to have the broadest impact on the industry and the world. It is exciting and scary. The compensation is good and when you get to a partner level, it is phenomenal (really!). The company is built for the long term, there is no rush for short term gains. This also means not burning the employees with very long hours. The management team is smart, even brilliant.

      Cons

      You have to battle bad reputation, explain some of the legal woes.

      3.0
      Jun 23, 2008

      Boring, safe, and predictable, like a family sedan.

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The benefits are top notch. The pay is solid, if not spectacular, but decent given the stability and low risk. In teams I've been on, work-life-balance is excellent. Oh, and occasionally we get to write software.

      Cons

      Hard to get anything interesting done at a company this size. More energy goes into covering-your-butt and navigating the tangled web of interdependencies than into innovation.

      4.0
      Jun 23, 2008

      Great place to work if you're in the right group

      User experience researcher ii
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      If you find the right manager and the right group, it's possible to go far. The benefits are stellar, with no co-pays on anything. We get stock grants instead of options, so that's just an extra cash gift (albeit one that pays out over five years). There are lots of challenges to be had in the company, and it's not too hard to carve out your own niche and really shine. If you don't like what you're currently doing now, there's a lot of opportunity to try out something new -- even changing disciplines if that's what you like. Name any pair of disciplines, and I can show you an example of someone who switched between those two disciplines.

      Cons

      If you have a bad manager or are in the wrong group, it's next to impossible to level. When you tell someone you work for Microsoft, you get to hear their litany of complaints about any Microsoft product that they've ever owned and that didn't shine their shoes for them.

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