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

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
3.0
Aug 4, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

People are very friendly and you can feel the talent in the office. I made good friends and learned so much from them. Salary is more than adequate and workload, while definitely not light, is still acceptable

Cons

Top management gets in the way of everyday things. Middle tier managers have the worst time: they are squeezed between the need to be hands on and the ridiculous amount of reporting, meetings, feedbacks, emails etc that is generated by their superiors. While developers are not buried in the latter, and top managers are not required to actually write code, the "man in the middle" has to do both.

1.0
Jul 29, 2014

No vision can be done

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

He is internal guy.

Cons

Empty word from leadership at nowhere. No actual plan to survive in next decade

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