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
4.0
Aug 29, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefit and great pay, if you want top pay for your level of work, this is definitely the place. Challenging work, smart people, team oriented culture, flexible work hours, and overall friendly work environment.

Cons

It's very easy to get into "great engineers don't always make great managers" situation, often IC got assign/promote to management role, not at will but as "expectation" of his/her level, generally result in team under-managed or worse. The company promotes team oriented culture and "no rock star" approach, but the review process speaks otherwise. Flexible work hours can be double edge sword, you should not expect every week is exactly 40 work hours. (Although managers are generally cool with taking "rain checks", so you can work a 60 hr week, then skip Friday for next 3 weeks.)

4.0
Aug 17, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Microsoft takes care of its employees. Most of the peers are friendly, so are the managers. Most of their HR policies are employee friendly. Easy to take days off and no one stops you from taking a holiday.

Cons

One of the biggest problems with MS is the stack ranking. It forces employees to be in a "rank" and these ranks are relative to your peers. This causes lot of good people to be at the bottom of the stack.

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