Working at Microsoft in Redmond, WA: 393 Employee Job Reviews by Real Employee working in Redmond, WA Area

"Microsoft is a great company to work in, and the direction it's going in is great too. The new CEO will hopefully be able to win back what was lost to Amazon and Google in the last decade."

"Its always a privilege to work for a major industry like Microsoft. - They have an agile meeting structure; so your always in sync with the product. - Also they allow quite a bit of freedom to do whatever it is you need to get done."

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"I like that the company is running a big project, which will affect a lot of people. I enjoy working with different teams, and moving to different projects."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Know what you are testing, and test every bid of the software if asked to do so."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"I don't like that sometimes it takes too long for the company to move me to a different project, once I am done with the current project."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I want to grow, and I want management to help me in this. I don't like to be stuck in the beginner place."

"There are excellent tools and resources, and a very comfortable environment and schedule."

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"I like the great people, resources, and work environment. It is an excellent opportunity to learn and grow."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Interview them as they are interviewing you. If it is a good fit for both sides, things will work out."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"I personally do not care for the Seattle area. The traffic to and from work made my days start and end miserably. There is an unfortunate classist attitude held by many permanent employees towards contract workers."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Take the time to get to know your employees. Reward performance instead of lip service."

"I have been working with Microsoft Global delivery from past 6.2 years, I find the workplace very high standard and the technology around is great."

"I have worked for Microsoft for 4 years. It is a great company to work for."

"I have worked as a Developer for around 7 years with technology stack that includes C#, ASP.Net, MVC, Angular, SQL etc. From last 3 years, I am working as a Customer Facing Engineer in Microsoft for Azure PAAS Products."

"I worked as a research intern in a research team oriented around Computer Vision applications in games. I found it to be a very flexible and informative experience as I gained end-to-end skills with assistance from the team. In return, I provided direct value clients in terms of communication and expertise."

"It was interesting to see how Win7 was put together."

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"The work was interesting and challenging. The support for even contractors for commuting was astounding. The facilities were the best ever."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"In my own hiring, I have found that broad experience can be as useful as depth in those cases where the job description is not so narrowly defined. Even if you are working on kernel code, it's nice to have an understanding of how Apache would stress it."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"Leadership was not visionary. That said, our group was chartered with making something new by simply restructuring the old OS."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Win8 running on arm cpu's is a bit of a mold breaker. It will force them to rethink how their software works in that environment. Mold breaking is good for Microsoft, for their products, and eventually for consumers."

"Content former employee, enjoyed work."

"Great people to work with, but innovating rapidly due to the current engineering system was and is severely lacking."

"I worked for Microsoft for 8 years and only left to do my own start-up. I would recommend Microsoft any day. It is an excellent place to learn both management and technology."