Skype Reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(149 total reviews)

Gurdeep Singh Pall

56% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Skype has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 149 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Skype employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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149 reviews
2.0
2 Aug 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people at Skype are extraordinarily talented and intelligent; working with them has been a treat.

Cons

As Skype further integrates with Microsoft, a lack of vision and leadership has really begun to take its toll. Corporate doublespeak abounds; people are no longer sure what they're doing or why they're doing it, and management has responded to this not with a strong blueprint for the future, but rather nitpicking about small issues. Talented and resourceful employees are being wasted in dead-end jobs with no hope for advancement or greater responsibility.

1.0
13 Jun 2016

it used to be....

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Mostly nice colleagues, beautiful offices, free food, some events (though these are getting less and less). You can get lots of diffetent training oportunities, as Microsoft has a huge online training library + if you're smart and know how to play the system, you can get trainings outside of Microsoft expensed. The pay is great.

Cons

Where do I start.....Constant re-orgs, like every 2-3 months, some bigger, some smaller, where management chains are shortened, then again made longer, then bunch of people are let go, shuffled around, etc. Total lack of direction, management/decision makers seem to have absolutely no clue where they want to go with the product (perhaps due to the decision makers constantly changing and every one of them taking another direction of what they want to do). The bureaucracy chain has gotten so big over the last few years, that getting stuff done, even the most simple changes/fixes to product, processes, etc, takes ages (if they get done at all).

2.0
20 Apr 2015

Circus

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Free food, huge budgets, nice office

Cons

Poor leadership, lack of quality execution

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