Microsoft Software Development Engineer reviews

4.1

74% would recommend to a friend

(825 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

57% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer, employees have rated Microsoft with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 825 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer, professionals have an excellent working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer, professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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825 reviews
1.0
Jul 6, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Great campus, work life balance (too much life, no work), good compensation , intelligent people around, ample opportunities for redmond/california transfers if shifting abroad is your only goal in life.

Cons

Too much hierarchy, you will never know the bigger picture of your work. Very slow code to deploy cycles. Old practises, old technologies, old people, old outlook. They over hire from the top tech schools in India and end up giving pathetic work to you crushing any sort of intellectual development. The initial package is good, but subsequent increments are very less compared to industry standards.

4.0
Jun 29, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Work life balance most likely depend on the team you are working with and how PM plans 2. Promotion and bonus varies a lot by team and org

Cons

1. MSFT is a PM driven company instead of the place where engineering rule 2. Work life balance ruins when PM do bad planning 3. Spend 26 billions bought LinkedIn without spending 1 billion providing employee free lunch 4. Hate self-host which wasted lots of dev efforts and engineering time

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