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      Microsoft Principal Software Development Engineer reviews

      3.8

      72% would recommend to a friend

      (406 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      80% approve of CEO

      70% positive business outlook

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      Principal Software Development Engineer employees have rated Microsoft with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 406 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Principal Software Development Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Principal Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      406 reviews
      5.0
      Jan 1, 2018

      Principal software engineer

      Principal software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Tons of flexibility, you can move between multiple 1B plus groups. Top-notch people to work with on hard problems. Cutting edge technology. Generally good work life balance.

      Cons

      Certain groups can have poor work-life balance. Company-level decisions are not always clear and understandable (mobile, devices).

      5.0
      Dec 22, 2017

      Principal Software Engineer

      Principal software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Excellent place to work. Organized, growing in efficiency, wonderful people, reasonable work/life balance, great compensation.

      Cons

      Lots and lots of people, sometimes can be difficult to get folks moving in one direction even when they want to. Internal politics at higher levels, hardcoded head counts and teams which have charters and deadlines creates boundaries which are often difficult to work with. Heavy focus on build systems for C#, when they need to focus on node.js a whole lot more.

      4.0
      Dec 8, 2017

      It's what you make of it

      Principal software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - big company, very stable - great benefits, great work environment - lots of groups / products, so lots of variety of projects, work load, etc. Choose wisely. - in the right group, you will be rewarded for your efforts/performance - reasonably consistent and predictable review process - seattle weather

      Cons

      - big company, so can be political/slow - some groups are better than others, both in terms of product and quality of team, so make sure you have the right one for you. - seattle weather

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