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 Tecnologia da informação industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The flexibility is amazing and there are a light of bright people that enable teamwork. I personally love the entrepreneurship attitude which allows me to run my section of the business as I see fit. Lastly, the trust from the front-line and second-line managers is amazing.

Cons

Work/Life Balance are grey and you can get sucked into the internal competition, stack ranking, etc. Every person in corporate with a product line, sales responsibility, etc. has a metric to monitor the business. There is a complex metric and you have to be focused on every metric... I personally believe this stifles customer relations.

2.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

A great place to have a stable life, have great benefits and learn a lot. They are supportive about growth of the individual. I learned a lot being there for 5 years out of college. I was definitely able to develop good database skills and continually improve my project management skills.

Cons

Boring, microshafted from a technology standpoint and it's just too darn political anymore. It's hard to make moves to new groups like the old days. Most of the cool stories i heard about hard working environments no longer existed and the passion of the team is just not there anymore.

5.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The best health benefits of any company in the US. A truly inquisitive culture despite the impressions of those that don' work there. On average, all of the folks I encounter at Microsoft have exceptional intellect, passion and empathy.

Cons

Steve Balmer has often said, "We are many Microsofts." This is true and it both a strength and weakness. The biggest outcome though is we have an incredibly complex business, both in terms of explaining what we do and mobilizing our own employees to understand what we are doing (or realizing when we don't really know.)

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