Microsoft Software Development Engineer II reviews

I had a really good team. The people I worked with were very talented (and in some cases borderline genius) and opinionated (in a good way). It's a great place to start your career and you will learn a lot (both good and bad). It's also such a huge company so you can change teams internally and do something very different. And pretty much you will find all sorts of people in the company. For every employee that you think is unworthy, you'll find 10 others who make it great. And the compensation and benefits are basically second to none (even with the changes to the health care plans). Work life balance is so much better at MS than at a startup.

1) If you work on the windows group you will get access to millions of lines of heavily cluttered code and within few months you will develop this ability to work through such complicated and convoluted code and In future someone who has always worked on a clean code base competes with you they will struggle whereas you will shine :) 2) If you leave msft to a different organization whom msft perceives as a competitor [the other company may not reciprocate this perception :) ] then they will pay you in full for your entire notice period and also waive off the notice period. So you get amazing benefits when you leave :) to the right company