Is Microsoft a good company to work for as a Lead Program Manager?

Lead Program Manager professionals working at Microsoft have rated their employer with 4.0 out of 5 stars in 34 Glassdoor reviews. This is an average score with the overall rating of Microsoft employees being 4.0 out of 5 stars. Search open Lead Program Manager Jobs at Microsoft now and start preparing for your job interview by browsing frequently asked Lead Program Manager interview questions at Microsoft .

Does Microsoft pay Lead Program Manager employees well?

Lead Program Manager professionals rate their compensation and benefits at Microsoft with 4.9 out of 5 stars based on 34 anonymously submitted employee reviews. This is 22.7% better than the company average rating for salary and benefits. Find out more about Lead Program Manager salaries at Microsoft.

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What are the pros of working at Microsoft according to real employee reviews?

"They provide great benefits and you get a lot of exposure if interested in full time corporate role" ((in 6301 reviews)); "Work/Life balance is good and entirely up to you make it what you want it to be" ((in 5330 reviews)); "Some really great people working in the Inside sales teams and the building is fantastic." ((in 4342 reviews)); "Office had a lot of talented folks when I left in 2023 and a great culture." ((in 4022 reviews)); "A lot of the work is driven by individual performance within a team environment and the pay is good." ((in 2097 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Microsoft according to real employee reviews?

"Bad managers abound and there is not much remedy for that except for leaving the job." ((in 1445 reviews)); "life balance in hardware due to frequent unplanned work travel and evening calls; bloated meetings; some poor management" ((in 1195 reviews)); "Frequent layoffs and zero job security regardless of your performance" ((in 767 reviews)); "Long hours you have to wait till the last customer leave it’s energy consuming some of the customers are unrespectful" ((in 478 reviews)); "Senior Leadership on their own mission for career advancement and have little time or concern for the core workforce." ((in 453 reviews))

Microsoft Lead Program Manager reviews

4.0

99% would recommend to a friend

(34 total reviews)

Satya Nadella

100% approve of CEO

93% positive business outlook

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Lead+ Program Manager employees have rated Microsoft with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 34 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Lead+ Program Manager professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Lead+ Program Manager professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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34 reviews

4.0

May 29, 2013

Program Manager - MSN

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Pros

People were smart. Teamwork, within a team, was decent. Technology was great. Company resource was tremendous, perhaps even too much, making life for program managers and engineers too easy.

Cons

The period I worked at Microsoft was when it changed from a nimble high growth company to a bureaucratic slow growth organization. While teamwork within a team was good, collaboration across teams were poor --- people are simply too busy with meeting their own performance goals or team projects to spend much time to work with other teams.

5.0

Dec 19, 2012

Microsoft

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Pros

Great company culture, smart people and benefits.

Cons

Collaboration between divisions can be difficult.

4.0

Dec 10, 2012

Great experience but getting competitive to a fault

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Pros

Smart employees, hard working, products affect hundreds of millions of people

Cons

The compensation system encourages employees to compete with each other and this leads to all kinds of tension, stress, and behaviors that ultimately hurt Microsoft. Windows 8 may have hurt Microsoft at a very deep level.

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