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Elena Bajic
2006
3.8
Recommend to a friend
79%
Say this is a great place to work
72%
Proud to have on resume
83%
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
The leadership style of the group managers under each organization
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
Things are not as organized as you thought. The company is so big that each organization is different.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
It greatly depends on your management team and the VP at the top of the chain. There are several places in the company that are vastly different in terms of culture and team fit. A good manager will maximize your experience, but the executives will put the ceiling on how good that can be. Microsoft Research was a good place, Office (feels like a preppy university), games organizations (juvenile gamer-bro culture), and Windows and the server groups (blue collar type ethic) have their own cultures, and likely if you fit one of them you'll be a bad fit for the other. They are almost different companies in terms of how they operate, how you are rewarded, and who is successful (at the peon level). At the partner level you see a more homogeneous breakdown (people with very high social skills who genuinely care about the business and their people, and those with BillG's social skills
Employee - Analyst / Associate
Great work life balance.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
It is a culture of intimidation and ruthless tactics. Those at the top rose through that culture, to change would take a very intentional shift. Those favored are male, white or Indian and not concerned with who is impacted by decisions as long as it benefits them.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
You will work with really smart people at Microsoft. Some of them will be good people too and teach you amazing things. Some of them will not be and will teach you about what your own ethical standards are.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
The work environment has declined to a state of bloated and finger pointing middle management with unclear focus or goals from the upper leadership teams.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
The company has changed over the years. It used to be a young, innovative and exciting place to work. It is no longer any of those things.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
Each organization has a different culture. You don't have to quit the company to explore new career options.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
The ranking system sets employees against each other and if a co-working gets a good review you may get a lower one. This systematically impacts both moral and colaboration
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
Great for people who are comfortable with lots of change, ambiguity, and a lot of room to add more responsibilities to your plate. If you are better in a situation where the goals and plan to get there are really defined, you won't like the culture.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
Self motivated, highly challenging and empowered teams at this company.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
Has good compensation, HQ and other office locations, a wide variety of projects in different organizations.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
The company is big and has been successful in many ways.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
Has friendly smart smiling people; unfortunately, lots of backstabbing, re-orgs and people complaining about other people and tearing people down if not in the clique.
Employee - Director
On the one hand the company is not (yet) as centralized as many other US companies on the other hand the company is build on personal networks. Unless you are part of those, which takes a while, MSFT is run (1) by a lot of managers who do not really have a clue of what they do (2) has way to many people in management layers which are not needed Working there can be quite satisfying if you run your own show (GM for a country, for a business line), but building a career is purely dependent on who you know, not how you perform.
Employee - Director
It's a place to learn new things in a new environment.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
Customer focus and agility need to be improved
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
Microsoft has a global impact and will give you the chance to tackle big challenges.
Employee - Manager / Senior Manager
Open, respectful, challenging, exciting is how I'd describe the work culture there.