Microsoft Software Development Engineer II reviews

4.1

99% would recommend to a friend

(384 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

84% approve of CEO

93% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer II employees have rated Microsoft with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 384 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer II professionals have an excellent working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer II professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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384 reviews
3.0
May 1, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Overall good benefits, good compensation. A wide variety of projects to work on makes it easier to learn and grow along the career path.

Cons

Weak leaderships are very common. Lack of visions and planning. They just can't do proper planning and fast pacing at the same time. Although in general there are a wide variety of projects to work on, few innovative ideas to be implemented.

1.0
Apr 13, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Microsoft has lots of money and decent benefits. Some of the middle management is OK.

Cons

If you are coming from a top engineering school, and really know software, this is not the place for you. I felt like after I graduated from MIT that I went back to elementary school when I started working at Microsoft. Most of the software engineers here have no clue and the office politics are out of control, so you spend more time defending turf than coding.

4.0
Apr 9, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working with awesome people. Opportunity to learn a lot. Experiencing great office culture. Generous compensation. Challenging projects and interesting problems that need to be solved. Opportunity to work on features used by millions of people.

Cons

Work / life balance could be better. Some of the projects are very marginalized and you don't feel like contributing to a better common future for the company / people.

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