Inside Microsoft's Massive Headquarters

Microsoft is one of the most influential and high-tech companies the world has ever seen. But have you ever wondered what it’s like to work there? Microsoft’s sprawling headquarters is no vanilla corporate office - instead, it’s more of a miniature city, with its own transit system, shopping mall, treehouses and even a grimy lake for dunking cocky senior executives. And that’s before we get into the secret underground tech labs where the very future of all our online lives is being developed. Or the hallway where high-fives are mandatory.
So join us today as we don our trusty lanyard and delve deep inside the Microsoft headquarters.
Covering an area of just over 500 acres in the Seattle suburb of Redmond, Washington, Microsoft Headquarters is quite rightly known as a campus. And just like a university or college campus, it comprises dozens of buildings - over a hundred all told - as well as sports fields, woodland trails and secluded courtyards for taking well-earned breaks.
Inside Microsoft's Massive Headquarters

[@thomaswoeste8916]

My interview is tomorrow wish me luck!

[@arodgzz28]

Best of lucks! Go crush it!

[@vintagerock547]

Good luck!

[@adin]

Good luck!

[@GeraldoluizAprendiz]

Good luck!

[@arkamazumder3557]

Good luck

[@rjw6487]

Worked for MS until 2018 (for almost 30years). What a ride - and pretty much nothing to regret!

[@patrickk.1]

Congrats to be a millionaire when you used the Stock program in all these years and not sold a single Stock 👍 I am putting in 15% of my salary. Already 30% profit and started working for Microsoft in March 2019.

[@rjw6487]

@@patrickk.1 Yeah it went up like crazy in the early 90th - only to crash in the Dot Com bubble and move sideways for a decade... However, hanging in there and being able to put some of your salary aside will get you into a position where you can decide at some point if you want to keep working for a boss or be your own boss. 😳 MS has still a lot of potential (even though it changed quite a bit) - and what more can you ask for having tons of fun going to work every day and get paid well on top? Good luck, enjoy and make the MS customers happy! Who knows. one day your name may be on the wall in building 33 as well.

[@HannuHeikkinen]

RJ W, what area you were working at and what products? Great to hear about former MS...

[@rjw6487]

@@HannuHeikkinen Terve Hannu :-) OEM IoT Embedded. 2009/10 I had the pleasure to spend a year in Finnish Lappland (MS' northern most home office at that time I presume) Great experience - My wife and kids speak finnish - I struggle - but I handle the moottorikelkka better than they do... :-)

[@HateTheIRS]

@@rjw6487 that’s so cool. Finland.

[@gregs5845]

I remember getting a 2nd interview with Microsoft back in the mid-90s. Their interview process was very unique than any other job I interviewed in my career. The phone interview was about them learning how you think and your thought process. After they flew me up to Redmond, I first met with a recruiting/HR person the next morning to discuss the agenda. I then met with two groups. The first group was the Microsoft Encarta group. You then go out to lunch with a Microsoft Employee from some other group and you talk about any questions you have. I recall back then that everyone gets an office. I then met with the Excel group. The entire process took almost the entire day and I did not get to meet back with HR at the end because of time. The process was very thorough.

[@aidanchan1693]

"Recent acquisition Minecraft". That happened in 2014, but somehow still feels so recent.

[@Extys]

holy shit more than 7 years ago already

[@chistoph-msby5191]

02 eitdnetgeo esah

[@QueenetBowie]

Meanwhile my office building hasn’t been touched since 1978 and there are hornets nests in our ceilings...

[@KanyeTheGayFish69]

That’s ghetto

[@curtcrossley6847]

What company you work for

[@shohan282]

I'd say It's eco friendly

[@jayus2033]

Ahaha I’m dead

[@Cyber_Guy2]

lmao

[@martindye]

Microsoft Campus: Open Source Apple Campus: Closed Source

[@musicalneptunian]

Both campuses: secret sauce to sell you more crap.

[@runninginthe90s75]

Linux campus : Toxic landfills

[@martindye]

@@runninginthe90s75oooo harsh 😂

[@EurofighterStormo]

“Beyond the Gates of Microsoft”

[@worldwidecs242]

Beyond the Bill Gates of Microsoft lol

[@harshchhajed25]

No

[@KanyeTheGayFish69]

Imagine being a billionaire ceo of a company and still being to nervous talk to a girl employed at your company

[@blackcat-mp7kh]

now a dyas its even harder

[@MeiinUK]

It's a video to present them in the nicest way possible...

[@changwilee8121]

Should be more careful with such ceo

[@newmankidman5763]

@umop apIsdn, "TOO nervous TO talk"

[@brodriguez11000]

The power of women. ;-)

[@PowerShellNoob]

Such a dream to work at any company with a campus like this.

[@janboomer7112]

Things have changed so much since I first visited in 1990 as a new employee. Loved my 20 years there, but glad to now have a life outside the 60 hour work weeks.

[@itspaulypickle]

I worked at the UK headquarters from 2017 - 2019. To be honest I really miss it! It was nothing compared this campus, though it did still have 6 buildings, a lake and many onsite amenities.

[@isaacfournier3270]

I don’t know why but I just love these type of videos about these amazing tech campuses

[@hqven_xo6727]

I live real close to it and pass by it a ton of times, it looks amazing! I’ve been inside of the tree houses, walked the trail, and been inside the building itself before (don’t remember what building though) I don’t work there, the only reason I could go in was because my friends mom works there. Over all, it’s a really cool place!

[@jasonw98]

Applies to work at Microsoft thru LinkedIn: Microsoft: Nvm we already know everything about you. Just wait for interview

[@NbgBytezYT]

Microsoft’s first sentence is disturbing af

[@TekGeekHD]

Honestly, it's a privilege to work here, and I'm thankful every day!

[@Sitti2300]

what is your most favorite building over there?

[@joshuajoe1419]

How’s is it?

[@mohamedkabha8838]

Fix win 10

[@ghostballs1874]

Apple Park is better

[@bsherman8236]

Windows update sucks

[@kevinm546]

From 4:08 to about 4:30 the video used is the from the Dublin Ireland office building. Not the Commons in Redmond.

[@colorfulcodes]

I work here! Great company.

[@jayus2033]

Lies

[@AbhinavKumar-dg8dz]

What's the Salary.

[@abhimannyu846]

Yeah u wish 😌

[@rohitkurup6191]

@@jayus2033 why how do you know? I work here too. I don't doubt her, why would anyone lie about that.. I am a 20 year vet of MS. Look me up on LinkedIn. I have worked in 16, 85 and many other buildings shown in this video. What's so unbelievable about somebody working here. I can also categorical state that Macs and iphones are not banned. In fact 20-30% of our developers use Macs. When I was in Office development after the Surface RT ARM device failed we decided to ship our software on iOS first. It was a big moment and that was about 8-9 yrs ago. Since then it's never been windows vs. mac. We are a platform agnostic services company. BTW I moved from Azure to Windows recently so this is not about my current team lol.

[@nclsDesign]

Lol. Do I smell some toxic envy in this comment section?

[@OfficialMaxBox]

"Hallway where high-fives are mandatory" sounds like something right out of Silicon Valley (the show, but.. you know)

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Module Harvard

[@lakshanbandara933]

Excellent video. It's clear and easy to understand your explanations .thank you so much for sharing your knowledge

[@NbgBytezYT]

At least we had some actual *inside* footage (unlike the Apple Park video)

[@simpleinverso8628]

That's what happens when a company feels too special. Microsoft might be way bigger than apple, yet they don't feel like special snowflakes.

[@NbgBytezYT]

@@simpleinverso8628 do you actually get the comment

[@simpleinverso8628]

@@NbgBytezYT Shoot... As you can see, i'm often very dumb... I'm sorry.

[@NbgBytezYT]

@@simpleinverso8628 ok I think you’re being sarcastic But in case you aren’t and you genuinely don’t know The previous video ‘Inside Apple’s 5 Billion Headquarters’ actually featured only 7.5 seconds of insider footage My comment was a joke about how we get proper inside footage in this video of MS hq

[@simpleinverso8628]

@@NbgBytezYT no, I actually feel dumb. Sometimes I just comment without thinking and this happens. But thanks for explaining!

[@leulgetachew696]

Mandatory high fives in the hallway are such a vibe😂😂 it should be everywhere

[@FS-me8mj]

coronavirus: what an opportunity!! Mua ha ha ha!!

[@parallelll]

@Norm T An idiot like yourself.

[@commentor5479]

Wow our profile pictures are purple, guys! Want to be friends?

[@marshallartz395]

Bruh peep this: Mandatory *high fives? That sounds more like a cult, not an employer. Give me freedom of choice.* 🧐

[@9812250118]

I guess the best part is the library in building 92 with some amazing books!

[@liz9753]

this looks so cool, I would wanna work there

[@gijs2222]

@Raah-Shammah Moses Reeds thats fk cringe mate

[@gijs2222]

@Raah-Shammah Moses Reeds u just confirmed that what you said is indeed verry cringe

[@gijs2222]

@Raah-Shammah Moses Reeds dude, im litteraly doing the highest level of education possible in my country. I have a brighter future than you will ever have

[@gijs2222]

@Raah-Shammah Moses Reeds and why are you even talking about self esteem? That ltrly has nothing to do with it

[@gijs2222]

@Raah-Shammah Moses Reeds first of all; i meant that i was going to the highest level of ediction ass in level of inteligence second; why would i be selfish, you couldnt possibly make that up out of the small centense u just read. and no, im not selfish and almost all people who dont finnish school dont become multimilionars. just because like 10 people could do it, doesnt mean everyone can. there is like a 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 procent change that you would become as rich and succesful as they are, let alone if you drop out of school and i dont think its cringe that you are trying to motivate people, i thinks thats awesome. its just the way that you do it with all the ''just believe in yourself and everything will be just fine''. life doesnt work that way, its a hard and mean world we live in. if you wanna be succesful you just gotta give it your all and hope for the best

[@greatestsawes9712]

MS Complex: Hi 5 corridour Covid social distancing: NO

[@d.-_-.b]

There are those two massive skybridges at 2:39 connected to building 25. They were filled with classic arcade machines along their edges for employees to play for free or tinker with in their offtime during 80 hour weeks. Then Microsoft management in their infinite wisdom ordered the machines removed or they'd be destroyed. Think of that when pondering how Microsoft will handle all the legacy games they just acquired through the buyout that includes all of Activision's back catalog.

[@nikemac84]

My niece's husband was a Software Design Engineer there and they lived in Bothell, Washington. Sadly, he died of a heart attack at the age of 49.

[@azeeminator]

Saddened to hear that. May God have mercy on his soul.

[@q7plusdo962]

I was there before but only allowed to visit a small section. I also visited Microsoft (brick & mortar) store and allowed to buy staff prices (only up to $$$ limit) few products. I bought few copies of MS Office 2019 Home & Business.

[@dancingiguana2309]

I just passed my interviews for a summer internship here. I'm so nervous yet excited!

[@Real-Imperfect]

More of these inside tech videos please

[@WhoaMoments]

Very cool video! Very informative!

[@jcjrsmith]

With the company for seven years, and I have only been to the campus for a two-week new employee course back in 2013

[@SecretOfMonkeyIsland784]

I am a software engineer and would like to work at Microsoft but location has always been a issue, in the UK they are based out of Reading and Victoria London. So if you are not close to those locations your only option is relocation, i have meet a few people over my career who are ex-Microsoft though and worked at the Reading site.

[@avi12]

Where is the building where the Windows 10 team is working? I need to talk to them about finally fixing Windows

[@topcommentor1655]

while being at it, can you also check them why win10 devolves with every update

[@AndroidNation]

@@topcommentor1655 they wanted to try something opposite as normal

[@LiqdPT]

"The building" as if it's a single one.. And as of right now, none of them. Campus has been empty since March.

[@AndroidNation]

@@LiqdPT you do clearly have a big sense of humor

[@PersianSoheil]

now they are all being done in India. all the programming, all the updates, all the support. half of the microsoft is in india now. this video didn't say a word about how much money Microsoft is taking away from the fellow Americans and send it to india.

[@user-jl9el3ks8u]

I just got accepted as an intern here!! Can’t wait to start next year!

[@ahm_adash_i6723]

do you mean in 2021

[@user-jl9el3ks8u]

@@ahm_adash_i6723 yeah I will be interning for them starting June 2021

[@enforc3rr]

How was the interview? and What questions were you asked? And they probably sort listed your resume on basis of a project right? so can you brief me about the project and tech stack which you used?

[@user-jl9el3ks8u]

@@enforc3rr I can get in a zoom call sometime with you and give you the whole run down. hit me up on ig @thatman.eman

[@msthalamus2172]

I worked there for 20 years... How did I miss the tree house?!

[@niyiab12]

I would love an office like that

[@celsopedra5844]

Such a great place for inspiration...👏👏👏

[@ramaleyb]

Not one mention of Fusion, Microsoft's own version of slurm.

[@jayrodriguez5096]

i love when he evaluations it out embodying us

[@ElseStand]

I actually visited last March. It was pretty deserted because of covid and I mostly went there to get on that F1 racing sim but it wasnt operational at the time. :(

[@tigerrx7]

Check in. Any update on the sim? Will it be released for the general public to purchase?

[@susheel_dogra]

Proud to be a Microsoft Employee. 😍 .

[@abraxas1983]

it is a privilege for us indeed to work there although I am in Europe..and our offices like Milan, Munich, Prague, Copenhagen or Amsterdam are just amazing and in my opinion nicer than the campus (but small obviously) 😅 stay safe

[@vijikumar2088]

Spectacular cozy and comfortable work place loved it

[@gzuckerman]

A lot of footage was actually of Microsoft's new campus in Dublin, Ireland!

[@Harlz2807]

“Be sure to play along, especially when you pass someone in the famous High-Five Corridor” Me: But that’s Corona!

[@stanleybowman-hood6194]

Hero: the villain base could be anywhere The villain base:

[@christohsaka]

Damm, jealous. Wish I could check it with my own eyes. Currently working at the Datacenter in Middemeer.

[@phakphak5798]

Great GAme and Sotre @@ Stone Kolap xD

[@sarasotaguy4598]

Can you do a video about KZbin's headquarters next?

[@QueenetBowie]

KZbin is owned by Alphabet (Google) which he's done a past video on if you look at his video selection.

[@shohan282]

Just watch the 1st few videos of youtube's own Channel "youtube" on youtube.

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[@abilmut]

Also WA headquarter, just curious

[@toxicstyles4083]

Microsoft: High five corridor my brain: COVID19

[@imanirudh3]

1:34 - I legit thought that was the Tenenbaum family portrait

[@1973Pippster]

I look forward to the day Microsoft is a footnote in history.

[@Necr0Mancer666]

This reminds of the mission where you had to hack into a tech campus in Watch Dogs 2. So amazing!

[@hondajacka2]

I've been here couple years and have never heard of the mandatory high-fives.

[@kakyoindonut3213]

yeah people in this video looks happy while in reality they're not

[@hondajacka2]

@@kakyoindonut3213 I think people are generally decently happy but not like high-five everyone in the hallway happy.

[@kakyoindonut3213]

@@hondajacka2 yeah, I mean they really not that happy right?

[@syedmisbah2378]

*4:41* u nailed it

[@dante5622]

They need a headquarters like this in Austin.

[@ashutoshpadhi2782]

All started with gates writing a basic interpreter for a microcomputer.

[@SecretOfMonkeyIsland784]

Yep watched a few films on it: Pirates of Silicon Valley, Jobs and a couple of others .. its like the bible to you if you are a computer enthusiast and want to know its history.

[@marsbars4767]

So this is like Cyberpunk where giant corporations are having more and more direct control over people’s lives.

[@conthegod1573]

Did you check out the Minecraft version or cyberpunk by elsium fire

[@misterstratocaster]

I went to Building 28 years ago to do a usability study on Exchange Server. I think it was Exchange Server 2000.

[@aliqazilbash5231]

sure would love to visit it someday

[@manesandeep7642]

Love from India🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

I NEED THAT MICROSOFT T SHIRT I HAVE BEEN A WINDOWS USER SINCE THE EARLY 90S LOVE IT

[@uhurushakur2932]

It's 2020......how old are you?

[@glasser2819]

here here... DOS 6.22 was good Win95 kept freezing with memory corruptions from run away code. XP Kernel was the real pinnacle! 👍

[@FinlayHamm]

1:56 I have that shirt without the Microsoft on it lol

[@murshedahmedmahi338]

Where it is situated?

[@salemkhan6239]

CORRECTION: STEVE BALMER IS NOT THE CO-FOUNDER. IT IS PAUL ALLEN.

[@pushparahi5681]

thanks

[@salemkhan6239]

@@pushparahi5681you’re welcome 🙏

[@huajie666liu8]

This basically is a city itself.

[@brodriguez11000]

Where's the power and water plant, sewage system?

[@JJFlores197]

It has about 16k less people than my town here in northern California.

[@pritampaul2507]

@@brodriguez11000 all that is actually there

[@ijsbert6174]

5:08 Co-founder? That was Paul Allen!

[@auro1986]

which is the room where the name windows was decided for microsoft's operating system? does it have a real window?

[@MelsvanWees]

That high five hallway is like a nightmare these days, rumors say they wanna call it spreader alley

[@LiqdPT]

well, campus has been empty since March (it's closed), so no..

[@joshuajoe1419]

@@LiqdPT You must be fun at parties

[@SavageScientist]

Paul Allen is the co founder of MSFT Ballamer as pictured is the former CEO

[@bossnoah3912]

Nice Doku, danke ARTE

[@MoronsSquad]

nothing better than the good'ol high five corridor these days

[@BenTjibe]

There are no "high fives" at the moment.🙂

[@tasnimsarker4653]

I believe to work there one day, inshaAllah.😀

[@SKYNCVLT]

Your “god” is fake and your holy war is pointless

[@mahirakalucasahammed2443]

4:38 That’s Mode Organic Salon

[@schneakey]

Hey there. Great video but just a note; Redmond, Wa. isn’t a suburb. I live here. Redmond is it’s own big city miles away and doesn’t even have a border with Seattle. 🙂

[@LiqdPT]

It's still a suburb of Seattle. Suburbs don't require having a border with the major city. Definitely within commuting distance (though, frankly, the commute frequently happens in the direction opposite to convention)

[@schneakey]

@@LiqdPT Sorry, I'm afraid you're incorrect. A suburb is an area within the geographic borders of a larger city. Redmond is not within the geographic borders of Seattle. It's actually separated by the city of Bellevue which is also it's own city and NOT a suburb of Seattle (I work there.) Dude, I you must not live around here but I have lived and worked here for over 35 years. Redmond is not a suburb of Seattle, sorry.

[@mehdihassan8316]

Helping the algorithm

[@SteveOgilvie]

This narrator sounds just like Bagley in Watchdogs Legion

[@mehdihassan8316]

Love this channel

[@patrickm.4469]

Can anyone shop at the mall or is it employees only?

[@glasser2819]

MSFT brought the computer out into the household to empower all users with Internet freedom 🤗

[@sexygeek8996]

They turned a useful machine into an idiot box.

[@metinhesenov]

@@sexygeek8996 ok boomer

[@sexygeek8996]

@@metinhesenov OK kid. You have no idea how shitty your life is now.

[@metinhesenov]

@@sexygeek8996 keep crying idiot

[@sexygeek8996]

@@metinhesenov You're the one who should be crying. You're the idiot who lives a delusional lifestyle and take orders from Microsoft. I will not tolerate a computer telling me what to do and when to do it.

[@rishabhpranav4378]

Atleast give me a sweeping job there 😍😍🤣🤣

[@KentoCommenT]

4:22 Thought you said Apple Retail space!!

[@businessguide6219]

Keep posting interesting contents like this!

[@hey0173]

just wish microsoft makes windows 10 look better it’s starting to look old in 2020 compared to mac os

[@cgl5639]

I thought the thumbnail was in Minecraft 😂😳

[@sidbrun_]

1:44 "recent" acquisition Minecraft? That was over 6 years ago!

[@theophilmawe9776]

the Best of all tech Campus

[@carbonart3362]

2019-High Five corridor . . 2020-Super spreader corridor

[@CHMichael]

Remember when Microsoft was supposed to be split up?

[@Think_Inc]

Glad that never happened!

[@joshuajoe1419]

@@Think_Inc yeah

[@giftbox-e]

Yep, keep hearing meeting as mating... "Mating room" lol

[@semicontalk3223]

Very nice facility!

[@petersampson5202]

GOD BLESS BILL GATES. I AM VERY PROUD OF HIM AND VERY HAPPY FOR HIM. GOD BLESS EVERYONE AT MICROSOFT. I HOPE YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES HAD A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS. I CANNOT THANK GOD ENOUGH FOR MR ESPARZA AND ALL OF MY BEAUTIFUL FRIENDS. 😊

[@romeosantiago]

High 5 corridor still exists during COVID-19 pandemic?

[@mr.boomguy]

I was wondering the same...

[@LiqdPT]

Campus has been closed since March. So, if it exists, there's nobody there to do it.

[@savariaalkolandai5324]

Good boss provided initiative to workers staff s professional..be happy . during bad time .😁

[@pranshusodhani2883]

What a great microsoft story and videob

[@aviralsrivastava3409]

I wonder what happens in building 69...!??

[@kitgary]

Still the best tech company in the world!

[@americancitizen748]

The high five corridor. What could me more fun than that?

[@BeckKingOfNorthMacedonia]

My schools STEM program is going on a school trip here later today I’m really excited