Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,799 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 53,799 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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5.0
Jun 15, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

At Microsoft, you’ll get the best on-the-job training in the world, while enjoying a casual, flexible work environment where you can choose everything

Cons

Microsoft at Work was a short-lived effort promoted by Microsoft to tie together common business machinery, like fax machines and photocopiers, with a common communications protocol allowing control and status information to be shared with computers running Microsoft Windows. Similar efforts for other markets included Microsoft at Home and Cablesoft. By any measure these efforts were a dismal failure; it appears only a small number of devices using Microsoft at Work were ever released before disappearing without a trace. Microsoft has since re-used the "at Work" term for a section of their web site describing various tips and tricks for using Windows in a business environment.

5.0
Jun 15, 2008
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The chance to have significant impact on products and services that are used by and are important to hundreds of millions of people around the world. And, because the company does so many different things, if you get bored or dissatisfied by what you're working on or the people you're working on, you can switch to something different very easily. From conservative cash cow with tons of process to nimble, risky startups with 5 cowboy coders, the company has all kinds of groups. The benefits are top notch - no we don't have free food but we have good food and it's not too expensive (and if we had free food I'd probably gain too much weight anyway). Also, there are pockets that do have free snacks - it depends if a group wants to spend part of its budget on snacks for the team - they typically sit in the group admin's office rather than in a microkitchen. One con is the process and bureaucracy - but the flip side is that things run incredibly smoothly. Support services, such as building maintenance & moves, IT, etc. all are well funded and make what seems like magic happen to the individual employee.

Cons

It is huge, and there are multiple groups working on roughly the same thing at any given time, competing from their own perspective. The inefficiency is disheartening although it usually works itself out in an OK way given enough time. In any huge company there are some poor managers and you hear some horror stories, although it seems like after the Vista release, many of the more senior ones were encouraged to leave.

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