Microsoft Employee Reviews
Out of 2133 Microsoft employee reviews, 82% were positive. The remaining 18% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Microsoft improve their work culture. The HR team, with 92% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Microsoft compared to all other departments at the company. The Communications team offered the most constructive feedback, with 62% of that department's reviews constructive in nature.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
What do you like best about the leadership team?
I like that they empower us to take ownership of our areas
They make themselves openly accessible
A good amount of them seem to emphasize WLB and personal connection, as well as delivering results. not all of them though.
Constantly working together to make things better
They help boost my confidence in this job
Review from Engineering Dept
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Fair and transparent Vision Stop bluffing and start working
Need fast and qualited human support team for international marketing department HRM HRD concern
Review from Marketing Dept
pay me my money now
They need to step down and let others do their work.
Retaining top talent and opening the positions which are frozen to take the relief off the current workforce.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
What I like the most is the health insurance and the pension plan
The whole package is comprehensive - allowing you to benefit in various ways
My pay is the best.
Review from Engineering Dept
All benefits are good for me.
The Benefits package is the best part
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
PAY. Microsoft is known for paying low and having low refreshers and promotional increases. Even if they never get up to industry standards, they should at least strive to get halfway there. They have the capital to do so. Definitely needs to be more than what it is.
After working for a company for 17 years you would think there are more chances to move up, but instead the likable employees move ahead and then block you so you don't make them look inadequate.
Review from Product Dept
Better understand of losing your stock vests when you retire
Compensate employees fairly instead if favorites on who they hire
Better compensation, it is peanuts here.
What are some of the best things about your team?
It is really transparent and willing to collaborate
They are all individuals working together happily
Personable and Empathetic. Smart and Collaborative.
I prefer not to answer
hard working, and willing to put themselves out there for each other
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
They need to communicate with the new joined in a good manner
Review from Customer Support Dept
Learn things and standards before handson. Fresher or intern implementing product and services and it goes production with bugs.
Collaboration - in my team it’s dog eat dog, and extremely surface leve
Microsoft need enough people to do the job and provide good services to customers
Need to be less worried about their own personal blogs and getting credit for what they do as individuals and more about team effort.
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
The engagement of the people I work with
plants, free snacks and beverages, morale events
People seem to care about each other here. Exciting technologies to work on.
push, learn, and grow toward success
There is a lot of diversity in this company.
Review from Engineering Dept
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Employee surveys need to be how a leader gets compensated. If they don't support their employees, they are not doing a good job.
Review from Product Dept
Atleast they need to conduct meeting after lunch hours and treating employees in well manner.
Review from Customer Support Dept
Get back to focusing on customers and employees instead of just rewarding useless leaders.
Overall culture realignment. What's obvious is the chronic environment that existed for year's.
Appropriate recognition given to those who are responsible for something
What did you like most about the interview process?
Was a pretty easy process
Well structured, not too bloated.
The openness to consider candidates with any background to have a diversity of employees
Interviewers were friendly and very smart
Quick and straight to the point
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Communication! There is a lack comms during the interview process
Select via standard interview questions. Stop taking people just be recommendation and backdoor
Be more transparent about the culture of rewards and compensation. More based on popularity than pure individual contribution.
Review from Sales Dept
Microsoft needs to drop its practice of discriminating in hiring based on demographic. At Microsoft each interview pool must contain a certian number of people based on demographic and hiring managers must justify why they arwnt hiring a "diverse" candidate,
MS likes to have interviews back to back (4-5) and does not let the interviewer know what they covering
Review from Sales Dept
What makes you most happy at work?
Being able to contribute to top technology trends
the people I work with make me happy
Growth opportunities and meeting new smart people
The work I do with the customers
Being able to learn and apply what I’ve learne
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Employee recognition is based on the most likable people in the group.
Review from Product Dept
We are viewed as a Vendor. Not treated like partners and I guess there is enough of a stain left by previous leadership to warrant caution
Change is not possible because change is irrelevant. Any instance of so called changed would only be window dressing.
Review from Customer Support Dept
Too much to convey is the medium.
The company doesn't care about employees or customer satisfaction.
Review from Marketing Dept
What do you like best about your company?
I can afford to live a small amount above the norm.
Review from Product Dept
The empowerment to do what needs doing.
Company invented modern computing. Offers leading AI and business management applications.
Review from Sales Dept
The culture, the compensation and the benefits.
Review from Sales Dept
I like working with 3D animations
Review from Design Dept
What would you most like to see improved at your company?
Respectful attitude by managers. Managers here have outdated knowledge and put themselves above company goals
Review from Engineering Dept
Hmm, this is difficult to answer. Teleportation instead of elevators and highway commuting.
Company is one of largest philanthropic organizations on the planet! Keep doing what you're doing!
Review from Sales Dept
more focus on quality over speed & clear vision from PMGs.
Review from Marketing Dept
I would like to get to work a little later
Review from Design Dept