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
5.0
Jun 4, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

salary is good. abundant of resource. co-works are friendly knowing lots of talents and having fun on discussion and co-work with them. good place to learn and grow.

Cons

over loaded and overwork in midnight, bad in communication between departments. hard to find balance of live and qualify of living

4.0
Jun 1, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Microsoft is amazing when it comes to career growth and work life balance. Variety of domains to work on. Just great.

Cons

MSIT division in Hyderabad is terrible for geek people. Managers show favoritsm and hold personal grudges. Less value is given to employees of MSIT by employees from any other division. Some managers are 'tharkis' and hire many pretty girls with zero tech knowledge. Good looking females and beer buddies usually get better performance review than geeks (How sad!) No variety in technology except .NET. Few years in MSIT and you would be considered useless in any other tech company.

3.0
May 29, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, work life balance is better than the newer generation of tech companies (FB, Google, Amazon), well established company with virtually unlimited resources.

Cons

I'm sure it varies by team, but often feels like the company fosters more of a competitive than collaborative environment, even within the same team. Managers are hit-or-miss; your career can often depend on how lucky you were in getting a particular manager. Feels more "corporate" than other tech companies.

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