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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (53,762 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 53,762 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      54K reviews
      4.0
      May 26, 2008

      pretty freakin' good as jobs go

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Big variety of projects and teams to work on, lots of opportunities for advancement, and for the most part the company is run as a meritocracy. With 20 billion in the bank, as employers go this one is quite stable -- it's unlucky you'll be laid off any time soon. There are tons of opportunities for personal growth and development, and most managers will work hard to grow you and bring out your potential. The company wants you to do well and it really shows. Of course with any company of this size there are bound to be a few bad apples, but for the most part co-workers are quite bright.

      Cons

      Sometimes it's easy to get lost in a company of this size. Microsoft's internet strategy feels fractured and inchoesive at times. This is a company of over-achievers and if that's not your mindset you may get left in the dust.

      5.0
      May 25, 2008

      A great place to end up working, after you've had your fill of startups

      Software development engineer in test (sdet)
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Reasonable work hours ("crunch" weeks are far and few between), excellent benefits (all-inclusive - no copayments even required), regional pay adjustments for cost-of-living differences (Bay Area pay was 15% higher than "standard" salaries for comparable job levels when I first joined). I've also had very good experiences with being rewarded for doing good work, in the form of stock awards, cash bonuses, and time off. Products being developed are very diverse, so there's a great opportunity to move between different technologies, markets, and even project scales (hundred-man projects down to teams of just a handful of people). The company is very stable (having been around a while).

      Cons

      Big company mentality - it often feels like there isn't much innovation going on, and sometimes it seems like the cards are stacked against trying to do something too new or creative. It's also a bit frustrating at times to be under the restraints of all of the antitrust suits which have been going on - cross product integration is very tightly examined to ensure there will be no legal ramnifications, down to one case where a partner team couldn't explain the format of data they were consuming to our team, because doing so would require them to document/explain it to the general public.

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