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
Mar 24, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

great opportunities, great people, good culture and lots of internal resources for growing professionally. the company also has great citizenship values.

Cons

slow to change and somewhat unnecessary processes /overhead, you could get stuck with gaining experience in just the Microsoft stack (technically)

5.0
Mar 17, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You receive good pay and benefits. You get to work on interesting and challenging problems. You can decide the pace of your career. Microsoft is a huge company with thousands of teams. You can move to learn a different technology in a new team every few years without ever having to move out of the company.

Cons

In some teams, heavy competition results in unnecessary politics. Work life balance may be affected if you are looking to get promoted in a competitive environment.

5.0
Mar 12, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1.Work with some of the smartest people in the industry. 2.Learn great software engineering practices and processes. 3.Meet and learn from people who wrote various engineering books and articles. 4.Prestige of working for Microsoft R&D. 5.Flexible work schedules to match your work life balance and to spend time with family. 6.Great pay and benefits which are competitive in the industry 7.Decent work life balance 8.What you implement will be used by millions of people around the world and that is a very satisfying thing to know that you can impact a global change.

Cons

1. Work life balance can take a hit at times during tight deadlines. 2. Salary can be increased a little bit more to be at par with Google and Facebook to prevent some employees from leaving for those companies :) 3. Nothing else really !

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