Working at Microsoft - Anonymous Employee Microsoft Employee Review
- 4.0Oct 9, 2015Anonymous EmployeeCurrent Employee
Pros
Great people to work with, with the occasional odd ball. Benefits are good and lots of flexibility on schedule.
Cons
The managers tend to be bad. Don't know any other way to put it. The senior management has no clue the lower managers are so awful so it never gets addresses, or they know and don't care. Not all managers are bad, but I would say at least 65% are really not quality managers but Microsoft will promote them up the rank which makes me think they may be encouraging the bad behavior. Let me give you and example...Female/married coworker had a manager making inappropriate inquires into her personal life via another manager. Instead of that manager shutting him down he gave him the information and then told her he was asking about it.
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- 5.0Dec 4, 2023Product Designer IICurrent Contractor, more than 1 yearLos Angeles, CA
Pros
Great ethics, brilliant people, great team.
Cons
Too large, too hard to know what's going on all the time.
- 4.0Jan 28, 2013Anonymous EmployeeCurrent Employee, more than 10 yearsRedmond, WA
Pros
1. If you love tech, this is a great place. No doubt you'll talk tech (mostly the MSFT stack) from enterprise to consumer - from PCs to phones to Xboxes - from datacenter to desktop. 2. What were GREAT benefits are now VERY GOOD (took a small step down) but still probably better than you'll find at 99% of large corporations. If you've got family - the value of the benefits is even higher. 401k match is nice. 3. Even with it's struggles MSFT is still a cash printing machine. This means if you can keep your nose clean and do reasonable work, you can have a stable job, pay your bills, feed your family, and not worry (too much) about layoffs. The stock you own likely won't tank, but probably won't go up much either. You'll get a bonus each year and some stock. It's a decent life if you aren't looking to light the world on fire.
Cons
Brand on Your Resume: After many years of losing market share and struggling to be at the front end of innovation and the fact that there's 90,000 employees, don't think MSFT is necessarily going to be attractive on your resume to more agile and smaller companies. Managing Your Career: Make you say this out loud so it registers - 90,000 employees work there. Double that for vendors. It is VERY hard to "stand out" and move up in the company. Don't expect your manager to be much of an advocate or enabler to help you meet your career goals - they are basically trying to survive the stack rank every year too. Not familiar with the stack rank? Check out the 2012 Vanity Fair article called "Microsoft's Lost Decade".
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