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

"Microsoft is a strong company that is driven to provide products in the internet space (devices, services). Although the environment, benefits, and pay are great, the culture is difficult. The review model changes regularly, but never changes. It is difficult to advance, and when you have advanced to a certain point you are eliminated."

"Microsoft is a good global company, but there is a lot of room to improve."

"Microsoft is a great company to work for. In fact, it does not need my or anyone's recommendation. It's kind of small Silicon Valley - you have all possible choices within the company. The company culture is great, people are very talented. As a downside I'd mention too many re-orgs happened recently, but this is probably the nature of today's dynamic world and market. I enjoyed working in Microsoft, think the experience gained there will help me a lot in other projects in my career."

"I had worked with Microsoft for over 2.5 years. During this time frame, my work environment changed drastically. Upon 1st on-boarding, work expectations were clear. However, by the time that I left, my own management had a very difficult time giving any form of solid examples of what was required to be successful within our division.You could meet and exceed your goals, and you could still be reprimanded by upper management for not doing better, or even in some cases, for doing too good."

"Microsoft is an excellent place to work if you are a fulltime employee of the Microsoft Corp (FTE / Blue Badge). As a contractor it sucks, demoralizing and depressing. It's uncommon for a contractor to be converted to FTE even after several years of loyal service, and there's this constant reminder everywhere you look that all the cool percs that make working at Microsoft an awesome rewarding career and lifestyle are FTE ONLY!"

"Once we shipped our product... all us contractors were let go, in my opinion that was kind of messed up. Another thing was that to get the product out on time we worked overtime... A LOT of overtime, and was asked not to report all our hours. And to just take some comp-time, but that proved hard to do because we got let go after ship."

"Great place to work but the growth velocity is not good. The requirements to get to the senior level is not really something I want to do."

"It's a great company to work."

"It is a great company to work for - lots of great learning from the champs in enterprise software."

"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."

"I've worked at Vendor at Microsoft for years with a lot of smart, talented people and resources. Lots of freedom and independence to do your job depending on the supervisor and group you are in. Overall, most managers had been friendly, flexible and accommodating. The flex-time lifestyle is excellent but workplace environment can be improved for contractors cramped in shared offices, such as a conference room with dozens of people in it or just a bench inside a lab."

"Good company to work for."

"I've worked for Microsoft for 13+ years until recently laid off due to re-organization. In this position I was able to utilize many skill sets to accomplish projects assigned. This included excellent cross group collaboration, open and honesty with customers and internal teams. Most importantly I feel my integrity built trust amongst the various project stakeholders, teams and management."

"A closet, nay a cell, in a dump is what they would consider a good office. Great place to learn your craft but you won't advance unless you come in at GM or higher."

"I have worked at Microsoft since 2006. You need to expect reorganizations and movement to new managers and office spaces regularly. I view this as giving me a variety of experiences. With 100k employees, the company is necessarily political. However, this often goes down the lower levels which is a bummer.The benefits are A+. I have not found better benefits anywhere."