Microsoft Employer Reviews

start up business within Microsoft competing with established high end enterprise market players. Responsible for creating and executing partner strategy, working with global SI and national SI partners worldwide.

Great job. Contract ended and then I chose to take time off to be an at home wife and mother.

it was very interesting as it was my first intern during college.
it strengthened my computer skills as well as my leadership through the thorough training and team projects. It helped me figure out where my potential interests lie at.

There are a lot of positions available that offer great opportunities but you have to go in knowing that there really isn't a work-life balance.

Leader in the technology and consumer areas, enabling businesses to be more efficient and effective. Dynamic, collaborative and energetic team culture with strong focus on employee development, work-life balance and community engagement.

Not bad, I was a contractor, very different from a FTE. Can't tell how is it is for FTE.

Great people to work for, though the company has very little loyalty to its people

My typical day at work is crazy. There are so many different projects going on with shifting priorities and timelines. It's really hard to stay on top of all of it. The team I work with makes the extra effort to be available and ready to support when extra assistance is needed. This makes the work environment really fun to be a part of. Even though – more... it seems stressful to work on so many projects all at once, when you deliver on time, against tight timelines and high stakes, it feels great. I've been a part of some big wins within MS advertising operations and you can't match that kind of feeling working on smaller scale projects. The hardest part of the job is aligning priorities with the rest of the team and external teams. Too often it seems as if conflicting priorities will result in a less efficient separation of duties. Collaboration is the most important component in delivering quality products on time and aligning priorities is integral in driving alignment between business teams. These are the values I have observed and been a part of at MS. It's been one of the greatest opportunities I have ever had to work along side professionals of this caliber. The best part of the job was all the recognition and support I got from management. They never hesitate to call it out when some one puts in the extra effort. A lot of work places have systematic ways to evaluate performance, which is nice, but getting acknowledged in an environment with tried and tested professionals is often more rewarding than other forms of compensation. – less

I love this job because they paid me to do the right thing. It was an program for teenagers living in the area that didn't have anything to do. I was paid to learn how to work Microsoft Office. After my training was over my, I was given the option to stay over and do my homework with a tutor. If I stayed, I was paid extra. So it was an awesome program – more... and I would recommend it to anyone. – less

Team oriented
no opportunity in field offices
smart people
friendly people

I created a project for Microsoft in using agile methodology, the main goal of that project was to detect the problems and flaws in popular news apps such as wsj and NYT and raise an alert to proper tier of people who can fix it, and thereby saving $3M+/year for Microsoft. Microsoft already had a tool called Keynote which was doing the same job. But, – more... It had few issues major issues were like cost, complexity, reliability. Reliability issue (false positive and repetitive alerts) was unknown until we started working on it. I took the responsibility to work on that problem and I ended up created an algorithm which fixed all reliability problems we had. They liked it, and later on the algorithm was included in all of the monitoring tools our team used. “it was One of my major achievements as a sw developer” . I developed an algorithm that solved this problem. to avoid false positive alerts“the algorithm calculates percentage of availability of news app on timely basis and when it crosses the minimum percentage it then it throws the alert to proper tier of people, and creates a threshold to suppress the same alert for next 1 hour(i created a config file so its customizable) this solves the repetitive alerts problem – less

sourcing recruiting
new position
thinking outside of the box

Enjoyed working at Microsoft very much. Bunch of passionate people who carer about building good software

Days were stressful but interesting.
people were good.
Lots of work to be done.
Typical day was busy putting out fire drills.

Productive and good place to Learn.Good environamnet. Was put into different proejcts where i got an oppurtunity to learn new technologies.

Very fun and energetic atmosphere.. FREE DRINKS! great experience and knowledge

I gained a lot of working knowledge of mobile testing from this experience, getting working experience on Windows Server, Power Shell and Remote Control tools. This experience gave me good exposure to effective communication and working as a team member.

I enjoyed my time at the Microsoft store immensely. I was hired with a great team that worked well together and for the most part all did their best to look out for one another and help their teammates grow and achieve their goals. Other than the training experience I think Microsoft is a great, rounded place to work that wants to see you achieve.

I worked four ten hour shifts as an employee for HP working in a Microsoft owned data center. The pay was great and the job was fun and enjoyable. Although it was a graveyard shift job, the shift differential and co-workers made it very enjoyable. I highly recommend working here.

The pace is fast and highly demanding, though exciting and motivating at the same time. Great organization to join if you like to tackle big challenges. The scope of the types of projects you get to work on are unique given Microsoft's size. It's a highly matrixed organization, learning how to get things done is critical. Work life balance tend to be – more... an issue for many employees, though the company offers perks that help balance that out somewhat. It's also a place where you will either fit or not fit into the culture. – less