Microsoft Software Development Engineer II reviews

4.1

99% would recommend to a friend

(383 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 383 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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383 reviews
2.0
May 15, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Variety of groups to work for Some great engineering talent

Cons

Rewards often seem to be based more on how you "sell" what you did rather than what you did If you aren't savvy politically, you can get crushed Review system combined with bloated senior/principal layers can foster atmosphere where teamwork suffers

2.0
May 11, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Large variety of products so you can work in any field you want. Microsoft compete in all software markests Great Benefits, health care, paternity and maternity leaves. Well defined career development milestones

Cons

Long development cycles, almost every product in Microsoft rely on long stabilization period where Test try to find bugs and Development just fix bugs. 90% of the bugs are nice to have type of bugs that would better be delivered as incremental update to product once it is releases. A lot of politices and processes specially around release management. You could fix a bug in 10 minutes and spend a month trying to get it into a patch Review process rely on fitting team members on curve following normal distribution so your relationship with your manager and how much influence he/she has in addition to which part of the project management perceive as important play more factor in deciding where you land more than your actual contribution.

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