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Microsoft Environment Employee Reviews

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

Fluently works with each other

remote working and able to mange myself

I like that I can legally quit my job at any time.

People sre always willing to help

Offering robust benefits packages, including health insurance. Good learning opportunities

Review from Engineering Dept

Work life balance is good

They encourage a Growth mindset

HRM Management International marketing strategy human resources and sustainable development are mine own peace

Review from Marketing Dept

HRM is the most valuable information about the world culture and sustainable resources human HRD digital software development marketing

Growth mindset approach, encouraging employees to fail, learn and grow.

Positive interactions with global scale impact

great collaboration with colleagues and executives are responsive

The team is higly motivated.

We were re-orged. My next position was a desaster due to another on team wanting the position.

Respect, equality and easy access to leaders

Review from IT 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

Build empathy. Hire managers who know how to do their job and can take feedback.

Executives need to pay attention and care about morale

Review from HR Dept

Don’t burn out your employe

Respect for employees and focus on product.

Too many things to list!

Review from Marketing Dept

A lot of talk - They need to follow thru on the promises

Review from Sales Dept

Treat people like they're valued. Even a little bit.

Slow down for the newcomers to fit in

Review from IT Dept

Already answered - needs to be more inclusive and respectful of suggestions of employees coming from diverse background

by having good work life balance

Review from Engineering Dept

Appreciate more on core value than money alone

Review from Engineering Dept

very live and colorful, like a nice landscape.

Review from Admin Dept

eliminate the mandatory 5% firing each year

Review from IT Dept

pretty good, surrounded by like minded people

Review from Product Dept

Stop stuffing contractors into crowded rooms with scraps of desk space. If you really want quality work from us, provide decent tools and work areas.

Review from Product Dept

Review Sentiment at Microsoft

82
82%
18
18%

About Microsoft's Environment

B+
72/100

Where This Score Ranks Microsoft's Environment

TOP
20%

In the Top 20% of 1188 similar size companies on Comparably

TOP
50%

In the Top 50% of 117 companies in Seattle

3rd

3rd place versus 5 competitors rated on Comparably

The environment at Microsoft is considered positive by 82% of employees and regarded as having a “comfortably fast” work pace by 912 employees. Relative to its competitors, Google, Yahoo, Apple, Sony, and Oracle, Microsoft's environment score ranks in 3rd place. This also puts them in the Top 20% of 1188 similar sized companies (10,000+ Employees) on Comparably and Top 50% of 117 companies in Seattle.

Rate Environment the Highest

  • Department - Customer Success
    +13%
  • Department - Communications
    +4%
  • Department - Customer Support
    +4%

Rate Environment the Lowest

  • Department - Operations
    -3%
  • Department - Legal
    -3%
  • Ethnicity - Native American
    -3%

How Microsoft's Environment Score is Calculated

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Results from 2418 Employees in All Departments, All Genders, All Ethnicities and All Yrs. Experience Experience

AnswerPercent
7 or less15%
840%
1029%
128%
More than 128%
On average, how many hours do you work a day?
AnswerPercent
Extremely fast25%
Comfortably fast39%
Moderate24%
A bit slow7%
Bureaucratic5%
What's the work pace at your company?
AnswerPercent
Positive82%
Negative18%
Is your work environment positive or negative?
AnswerPercent
Yes30%
No70%
Does someone you work with closely, make you want to quit your job?
AnswerPercent
Yes57%
No43%
Do you have a close friend at work?
AnswerPercent
5% or Less30%
5-10%29%
10-25%23%
25-50%9%
50%+9%
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