Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation at Microsoft?
15 Answers from Employees at Microsoft
- 3Helpful
Top Employee Response
Left another job making $6000 more a year just to be here. I see the contracts on what is charged for my work & I get less than 1/4 of that
- 3Helpful
I got one bad review which is hard to come back from at Microsoft and my peers are earning 5 figures more than me now
- 3Helpful
When I was asked to complete a project, completed it less than a month ahead of schedule, then fired the next day.
- 3Helpful
Management is getting worse and worse. Skills are not appreciated anymore in CSS as much as "management projection"
- 3Helpful
Underpaid, beaurocracy, less transparent management, slow decision , old legacy culture driven by uncles , unethical practices
- 3Helpful
The cost of living in puget sound is way too high compared with other areas or states
- 3Helpful
Benefits get quietly stripped away every year. Salaries have not kept pace with the industry.
- 3Helpful
Incompetent VPs making their friends partners and showering them with awards and promotions, yearly.
- 3Helpful
Incredible quota growth numbers in field sales restricts how much you can make.
- 3Helpful
Received an offer with 30% higher pay and significantly higher stock compensation.
- 2Helpful
Many average skilled people get promoted by managing up.
- 0Helpful
The pay is way lower than the market.
- 0Helpful
For our area compensation is too low
- 2Helpful
Lower than in other companies
- 0Helpful
Fair rating system
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