Microsoft Employee Job Reviews in the United States

"I have attained invaluable information and knowledge."

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"I love the plethora of knowledge and how easy it is to access."

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

"Build your knowledge base, research the company that you are applying to, be confident, and know your worth."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"I am not fond of the time constraints. We are only able to work with companies for a predetermined period of 2-6 weeks."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Listen to the constructive suggestions that your employees provide. A happy employee is a productive employee."

"Outstanding experience - for both professional and personal growth!"

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"I like the wonderful experience, great flexibility, and outstanding team environment. It is a great place for self-starters like me."

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

"Be prepared - this is an outstanding company with extremely smart people. Always come prepared for an interview."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"I don't like the multiple layers for approval and process improvements - very locked into specific areas of expertise."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would suggest less change in management - consistency is critical for advancing teams."

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"I like the company culture, and people open for new ideas."

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

"Priorities are different for person to person."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"What I don't like about working at this company is that work is limited to MS technologies."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Management in MS is good, but every management has improvement areas."

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"I like the great people, good benefits including food and memberships, and the challenging work culture."

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

"Just make sure you practice your coding and algo."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"There is not enough structure in the software development positions or testing."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Add more structure to the jobs to get more performance."

"Overall, good - a solid B."

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"I like the potential for greatness, lots of really smart A-types, and solid business/value proposition. There is weak innovation."

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

"Be a student of the industry, and be clear about what you want to do and what you expect from your manager."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"I don't like the lack of innovation given all the IP, experience and company assets."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"People management needs work, and the stack ranking system creates unnecessary competition between peers."

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"The teams I work with are talented, smart, and energetic. Microsoft offers great room to grow and learn."

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

"Know ahead of time that you will probably work longer than expected and sometimes on weekends, but it is worth it a lot of the time."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"There are barriers to entry with just about everything you want to do. If you have a great idea, it is often never heard."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Start valuing innovation in addition to polishing processes. There are times when the hurdles simply hinder growth."

"A frustrating roller coaster ride. Not what I signed up for."

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"I like the brilliant people, the access to MSFT development tools, the salary, and medical benefits."

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

"There's plenty of opportunities in Redmond. If you're young and smart you should go for it. It will help build your career, and you might be able to get into the inner circle. There are many opportunities in other teams if you're in Redmond, so you won't be stuck with a choice of having to suck it up or leave MSFT if you're not in a good position on your current team. There is lots of technology to work with, lots of smart people, and good salary and benefits. Don't worry about the whole cool factor. It's silly not to work for MSFT because it's not perceived as cool."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"I don't like the cut-throat culture that doesn't give employees a reason to do more than self-promote, even at the risk of hurting co-workers. I don't like cronyism, and meetings that become soapbox opportunities for certain employees to be heard. Often times nothing is accomplished."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get rid of the mentality that pitting employees against one another instead of competitors in the market, is a good thing. Spend less time in meetings where non-essential conversations occur all the time."

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"I have a few colleagues whom I enjoy working with, and the working is flexible, but overall the culture is more about collaboration than accomplishment."

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

"Be politically active with your managers, and go with the flow."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"The inability to make a decision in a short timeline is frustrating at times."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be a little more progressive with our products and not so reactive."

"For a vendor, this team is a good team to work with."

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"I am assigned to the team by Chinasoft. All the people that I worked with are nice."

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

"It's pretty much the same as Microsoft would interview their own employees. Microsoft has high expectations."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"As a vendor, we are second class citizens compared to FTEs. For the most part I am fine with that, except when it comes to office space. Vendors sometimes don't have any place to sit."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"As vendors, we are getting less pay, and work harder than FTEs. The China vendor team is not as capable as Microsoft FTEs, so please lower expectations to the offshore team. As a team leader, sometimes I found its difficult to manage expectations."

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"The company has sufficient resources and a foundation for trial and error."

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

"Understand the culture and the job description. Make sure the candidate can adapt to the culture."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"The company is struggling with online service and having great difficulty in moving to a more agile process."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Really understand what it takes to change the culture for online service, and have strong solution architects for online service."

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"I like the ability to balance your schedule with personal needs - so the work-life balance. The office environment is good: free drinks, a lot of options for food, etc. I like the benefits."

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

"Make sure you CLEARLY understand the role and if it will change in the near future. If there are other factors at play or other orgs that impact your role, understand what those are as well."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"My dislikes are: too much company politics, people spend way too much time managing their careers and not their business, too much unclarity with roles, too much role redundancy, and not enough good managers in leadership roles."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would have someone in charge who is progressive and forward thinking about the business, where the next innovations in tech are being made, and set the company up for the long term."

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"My likes are: well organized, demanding but not too much, nice salary and bonuses, and nice morale events (although not enough in last years)."

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

"Improve your coding and presentation skills; think out of the box."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"There is a need to innovate more, invest in team morale, and bring talented PMs!"

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would suggest more innovations, more crazy ideas, and more budget for morale events."

"Challenging projects, honed leadership and mentoring skills, learned a lot."

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"I like the good work culture, challenging projects, good employee day-to-day care, and good brand name."

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

"Microsoft is more focused on the aptitude and core competencies than the skills, so focus more on that."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"Growth and independence is a little less, as compared to the hard work you do."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Trust your employees more and give them enough independence and credit for the work they do exceptionally well."