Microsoft Employee Reviews

Good place to learn and specialize in areas of interest. People are generally nice and helpful. Hours can be long at times but generally manageable and flexible.Hybrid working environment with good medical benefits.

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Working culture, Diverse Team

Partner/Operations Manager (Former Employee) - Singapore - April 10, 2023

Working in Microsoft means that you can work with a team of diverse culture, on multiple time zones. Company work culture is great and company values diversity and inclusion a lot.

Pros

Pay is good, work culture, and people

Cons

Lack of work security (layoffs)

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Productive and opportunities to learn

Junior Engineer (Current Employee) - Singapore - August 19, 2022

Different culture across teams, depends on the team dynamics and team manager. Opportunities to learn new technologies and experiment. Good perks and benefits.

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you are expected to deliver and the bar is set very high. collaboration with different teams is expected. opportunities to learn and explore.

Customer Relationship Manager (Former Employee) - Singapore - January 30, 2022

work hard, play hardgood medical benefits - includes immediate familyflex spending account is generousESPP optionsdeliver and you will be rewarded with good bonus and RSUpaid time off expect to collaborate with different teams / regions

Pros

brown bag sessions

Cons

time zone ... expect meetings at odd hours

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Fast-paced, rewarding

Education Program Manager (Former Employee) - Singapore - July 11, 2021

Global meeting in the morning to get everyone up to speed about the latest development, weekly check-in with global training partners on the status of current and upcoming projects, online presentation to schools, focus time for personal development, lunch with colleagues, complete any outstanding work, work through the challenges and possible solutions, seek advice, unwind before stopping work. Management team seemed distant in Singapore compared to the US. Very little interaction between management and its staff /team members - they only work with their direct reportees (middle managers). Middle managers has a lot of autonomy over how they run their teams, this would be a challenge for the team if they have a poor or bad leader. The hardest part about the job is when you have an unnurturing boss and one who will keep putting you down in whatever you do. The most enjoyable part of the job is you know how meaningful your work is, and you derived the highest satisfaction from doing the work.

Pros

Meaningful work, high job satisfaction

Cons

Pressure to meet sales target, bad leadership (my direct boss)

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Auditor (Current Employee) - Singapore - April 22, 2021

Great environment to work and grow. Lots of focus around diversity and inclusion, along with supportive managers to enable a culture of trust. Highly competitive benefits.

Pros

Competitive pay, great facilities, flexible work hours

Cons

Nothing in mind

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Good

Internship (Former Employee) - Raffles - March 16, 2020

Very good company culture. It is very collaborative and very flexible. The office is an open space concept in which you can choose to sit anywhere that you’re most productive at

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good clients

Customer Service Associate II (Former Employee) - Singapore - March 9, 2020

Aperia Mall is consisting of two Business towers and a 3-storey retail podium. Managing the tower office lobby reception desk and concierge in the shopping mall. Greeting visitors and responding to telephone information in response to visitor inquiries. Visitors control log by keying details in Visitor Management System.

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Productive and Fun working place

Data Center Incident Manager (Current Employee) - Singapore - February 29, 2020

Working with Microsoft has its own advantages such as great learning opportunities, work life balance, stress free work culture. Microsoft respects work life balance.

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Horrible hire and fire

Business Analyst (Former Employee) - Singapore - January 23, 2020

Horrible hire and fire under this guy called baien. No transparency on reviews. No respect for employees and vendors. If a guy like that could get his way into a management role then it isn’t a company worth working for

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Executive & Team Administrator (Former Employee) - Singapore - December 8, 2019

Flexible work culture with understanding from boss. Lots of excellent tools and new software to learn. Great colleagues and excellent working environment. Integrity is highly regarded

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Good workplace

Data Scientist in Data Science and AI Team (Current Employee) - Singapore - November 12, 2019

Good corporate culture; Innovative technology; Good benefit; Opportunity to travel; Flexible work hour; Able to work remote; Helpful staff; Global insight;

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ok

Digital Program Lead (Marketing, Social, Events, Leads) (Current Employee) - Singapore - October 28, 2019

remote but not remote working culture and very competitive some smiley faces but very hungry for fast track folks no real friends ......... ........... ....................... ....................................

Pros

some smiley faces

Cons

long hours

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Micromanagement at its best. Poor management

Concierge Administration - Technical Support (Former Employee) - Home - October 28, 2019

I worked from home during this job, and the call center managers monitored everything I did down to how many times I peed throughout the day. No training. You're suppose to come up with answers to complex questions on the fly by using their knowledge base. It really is an inhuman way of treating people. They listened in on every call and counted you down for every little word you spoke or didn't. They marginalize you as a human being, and treat you as if you are a soulless mechanism that needs to be corrected all the time. This only works when other people allow it to work. It's not Microsoft necessary that makes this position horrible, it's the cowardly people who enforce unrealistic goals and treat their fellow man like they don't matter -all for the sake of a dollar.

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Great team; terrible managment

APAC Analytics Lead (Former Employee) - SINGAPORE - October 1, 2019

Worked in APAC marketing team with talented bunch of hardworking people, who were let down by poor management and politics. Company couldn't decide what it wanted from a marketing team, nor how to measure marketing performance, which lead to anxiety and high team attrition rate,

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good project

Collection Analyst (Former Employee) - Singapore - August 22, 2019

During MS project, I have worked under several companies. It was a great chance for me to experience the culture of each company and also Microsoft is quite good at managing the vendors

Pros

culture

Cons

not stable

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Strong work culture

Director, Partner Account Manager (Former Employee) - Singapore - July 18, 2019

people are nice. a bit political but to be expected. treats employees well. always had good managers - supportive of growth. you usually have lots of space to try things your way

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work culture was great

Business Analyst (Former Employee) - Singapore - May 11, 2019

Working atmosphere and culture was great. Since i have completed my bachelors in computer science i was not much interested in business analysis role.

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Nice

Student Intern (Former Employee) - Marina Bay - March 19, 2019

Great place- nice working area. Supportive environment, great location and extremely convenient. Perfect place to develop mind set and skills and learn new things.

Pros

Free food in pantry. Great stock.

Cons

None

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Monotonous Job

Product Support Engineer (Former Employee) - Singapore - March 18, 2019

Learnt and love handling various callers. Day would revolved around returning calls to clients of past unresolved cases. Management was results driven but would stay back and enjoy a game of Call of Duty with the team.

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It was nice experience to work these companies

Technical Specialist - Storage SME (Former Employee) - Singapore - February 27, 2019

I worked on multiple project in HCL and part of project I am able to work on different companies and learn lot.Learn new technologies DC migration .Work culture .Making customer happy was our main motivation .Able to provide new value added idea to customer.Made operation hygiene.Worked on multiple automation which make my team mate life easy.