Microsoft Software Development Engineer reviews

4.1

74% would recommend to a friend

(825 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

57% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer, employees have rated Microsoft with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 825 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer, professionals have an excellent working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer, professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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825 reviews
3.0
Nov 24, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

If you are seeking for good life/work balance , Microsoft is good. Not too much pressure on the tasks.

Cons

you can not get change to touch core technologies , especially in very large teams. You only got very sliced chunks of work to do. Not good for your career development if you are ambitious.

5.0
Nov 16, 2014

Good

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

GREAT Company Experince Depends on Group and Manager Good Work Life Balance

Cons

People may feel stagnated. Experince depends on manager

4.0
Nov 15, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Environment was supportive. At least in the group that I was working on, people seemed pretty happy with their direct leadership. If one was interested in Microsoft, now would probably be the time to join, given the shifts that are occurring. (Note: this applies mostly to software engineers, since they are gutting some positions in order to reach a certain ratio between developers and PMs.)

Cons

You can notice the dead-weight at times. It definitely seemed like Satya Nudella, the new CEO was trying to take the company in the right direction. While I would bet for them succeeding as opposed to against, you can tell there it'll probably still take a decent while.

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