Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,741 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 53,741 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
3.0
Mar 23, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good working climate between colleagues, especially since performance system was made less rigid a year ago. Old performance system still visible in mindset, causing competition, which is not always bad.

Cons

Attrition target in some departments is "hard coded", meaning that 5% of employees are to be actively managed to cause a "healthy" performance culture with new hires bringing in new ideas. This system may be useful for a year or 2, but at some stage you realize that you have to let go of people who are from an absolute perspective more than good enough. The system is based on the 5% bottom *relative* performance, and hence fully ignores the absolute performance of such employees.

3.0
Sep 20, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- flexibility - Work-life-balance - company car policy (was better in the past though)

Cons

- nerdy - too much politics - definitely not the best people (especially in Management) - work atmosphere - offices far away from the city center - cost-cutting is ridiculous - company is interfering in your private life (e.g. employees are encourage dto post useless information about geeky technology even they don't care on facebook. Haven't you realized that nobody else cares???) - brainwash brainwash brainwash

5.0
Sep 4, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- clever people to work with every day - responsibility from Day 1, even as an intern - flat hierachy - exciting projects especially if you are interested in AI

Cons

- hard to get a full time position

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