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      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

      Ratings by category

      4.8

      Work/Life balance

      4.7

      Culture & values

      4.7

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.3

      Career opportunities

      3.9

      Senior management

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      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
      3.0
      Feb 28, 2015

      Good place to learn and for career with a bit of toll on your work-life balance.

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
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      Pros

      1. Hardly any politics 2. Good place to learn 3. Very agile 4. Good for career growth and to start career 5. Inspiring colleagues 6. Lot of free snacks/fruits/cookies

      Cons

      1. Work life balance is a question mark. Even without management demanding, peers work day and night. This causes peer pressure and jolt work life balance. 2. No place for fun. Hardly any team building. Expected to work and contribute from day 1. 3. Need to talk to multiple internal teams to understand stuff and that can get tiring at times.

      3.0
      Jan 25, 2015

      Trying to modernize, but stil "old school"

      Software development engineer ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The pay and benefits are above the average; Flexibility to work from home and flexible times; Lots of smart people and experiences to learn from; Lots of divisions and opportunities to work in different projects.

      Cons

      Still "rock-star" culture, where vocal / connected people take clear advantage (sometimes over the work of more skilled but less loud colleagues). Little team collaboration; Still "bubble" culture: whatever exists or you have done outside MS doesn't mean anything; "Old thinking" in most senior/leads, with practices and methods that have been scrapped more than a decade ago (e.g. waterfall, lots of planning and documentation); Too many managers, many outdated (above), others totally clueless about the skills for their work (e.g. test leads that don't know unit tests and CI). Little autonomy for individual contributors (every single technical decision must go through managers)

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