Microsoft Software Developer reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(6,423 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

73% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Software Engineer Developer employees have rated Microsoft with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 6,423 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
4.0
Sep 5, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

- Good compensation - Good work/life balance - Definitely get to work on interesting and fascinating things.

Cons

- Toxic politicized yearly review system means the focus is on individual competition rather than team collaboration. - Very difficult to find the right people to connect with to get things done, simply a matter of scale. As a result, company probably runs at 10% efficiency just due to churn and communications loss. - A lot of people have bought the kool-aid, which leads to some poor decisions.

2.0
Jul 10, 2012

Mixed experience

Recommend
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Pros

There are some truly great people working at Microsoft. Learning from them and working with them on interesting projects cannot be undervalued. It's also a great place to intern.

Cons

(Mis)management. Broken review system. Processes and politics. Not the best for people who are more technical than politicians and don't want to be drawn into politics and who don't want to be competing with peers instead of doing their job and delivering great products. Oh, and you better be an SDE than an SDET because whatever they say, there are plenty of people who don't treat good test developers as well as they do product developers.

4.0
Jul 7, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Excellent benefits, low-stress. Great people, managers are typically good at managing teams. Depending on the manager, you can get good recognition if you go out of the way to contribute more than what is expected (and what is expected is actually very basic).

Cons

If you're looking for something exciting and cutting-edge, Microsoft is probably not the place. Its a big company with a defined heirarchy and it can be hard feel like you're making an innovative contribution - management for the most part is looking for, and expecting, code monkeys.

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