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

"Fantastic five years. I learned a lot and got to work with extraordinary people."

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"I like the creative and smart people, the wide-reaching platform to affect change in the world, and innovative projects."

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

"You've all heard of the brutal day-long interview process at companies like Microsoft and Google. Having been a part of the interview loop, I can tell you that it's all... true. It's very grueling and you need to be prepared."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"Career movement is limiting after a certain point - logjam in higher management levels."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Spin out R&D projects sooner. There are lots of very innovative things that people have created - they can be utilized in new products for consumers."

"I worked at Microsoft for almost 5 years - this helped me grow me as developer and a automation tester."

"I've worked at Microsoft for 5 years. 2 years as a contractor and 3 years full-time. My biggest gripe with the company is the way they set up their annual reviews. They pit team members against each other and that creates a necessarily hostile environment to work in."

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"I like the excellent work culture, benefits, and respect to the individual and decisions."

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

"Applying online was very difficult and was erroring out since a couple of days."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"I have no dislikes, but on a lighter vein, a couple of times they ran out of the drinks in the cafe. :)"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management was absolutely fine, and there were no suggestions or complaints."

"I've worked for Microsoft for 4 years in various roles, and I have greatly enjoyed my time here. It has been a good opportunity to increase my skills, gain exposure to various parts of the business, and build my resume. The work being done is compelling and my team is a pleasure to work with. It is a very competitive environment, for better or worse. However, I would highly recommend Microsoft as a place to work."

"I've worked at Microsoft under contract for a few years now. While they have a bit of a class system, I still enjoyed my time there. I hope to someday have a full time job with them or someone else that is as passionate about games as I am. The passion at Microsoft appears to go from person to person and in the end it does come down to the money."

"Good people, tech, food and time. You have little control as a vendor though."

"I worked for Microsoft since May 2011. Made a huge difference in improving the SQL performance across a wide range of applications. Became the SQL performance escalation engineer. Big company with a lot of potential for growth. A great place to work for."

"I have worked for Microsoft since 2011. It is a good company but has too many in-house applications to support."

"I worked for Microsoft from 2011 to 2020. A mostly enjoyable experience working with great co-workers on interesting projects. Flexibility to work from home."

"Extremely great company to work for."

"Microsoft is a great company to work for, filled with brilliant people. Compensation and benefits are unbeatable in the industry."

"Working at Microsoft can be great, or terrible. I was working on a great team with wonderful people. We were given the tools we needed to succeed. I miss that job. I didn't miss the commute."

"I worked in this position in 2013 as a Predictive Modeling analyst. I use Excel, SAS, R, SQL in my daily work."

"Great research environment, opportunities to work with many brilliant, open-minded researchers."