Microsoft reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(53,744 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 53,744 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
Oct 16, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Modern workplace, compensation and benefits over average.

Cons

Much global management overhead (vertically & horizontally), misaligned goals between common contributers, extraordinary highfrequent role & management changes, work-life-balance poorer than advertised.

4.0
Aug 1, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good compensation package, strong brand, very smart and motivated people, industry leader driving cloud adoption. Investing a lot in competence development and will challenge you to grow and develop. Fantastic for career development if you're in regional/global role.

Cons

Annual layoffs targeting employees over 40 and in senior roles, very Redmond-centric, career development only at GM-level and above, Services are a crap org to be in (everything moving to India, firing senior people,hiring only recent grads). Still forced curve in performance reviews, lower performers pruned out yearly. Very few good roles outside of Redmond, company prefers hiring external vs. internal.

3.0
May 30, 2017

I would not choose MS again

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Global company, lots of flexibility in the working times to allow a better work life balance.

Cons

Too big to give everyone a chance to show impact, lots of restructuring going on, no time to focus on what really matters, the people

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