Microsoft Senior Software Development Engineer reviews

4.3

98% would recommend to a friend

(318 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

99% approve of CEO

98% positive business outlook

Senior Software Development Engineer employees have rated Microsoft with 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 318 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Development Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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318 reviews
4.0
Mar 27, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

- access to many bright people who are good to work with - Speaker series where external speakers on all kinds of topics come is great. - Library service is amazing. See something you want to checkout on the web - have it delivered to your office. - Very interesting things going on in research and Tech Fest lets you see what's going on. - Resources for getting your work done are excellent

Cons

This is not a good place to become a senior developer. Once you have hit your stride in your level, even though you are productive, you will become devalued because you are not on a promotion track any longer. We can't all become VPs so at some point you'll find your equilibrium. This will significantly impact your financial rewards, and eventually make it difficult for you to move around in the company.

2.0
Mar 22, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great health benefits, gym membership, lot of facilities. There are many groups within MS that are doing great work.

Cons

Culture is very strange. There is work pressure to deliver, when the high level roadmap is in a state of constant flux. So what are we really delivering against !!! Dev managers (the ones who have been there a while, like 15+ yrs) think they are Gods, a lot of them are the rest and vest type. Not much see in terms of communicating with devs. Overall, it seems like they want to run fast, however, they dont have much of a clue where they are running towards. hence the work pressure with a lot of dissatisfaction at the end.

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