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
2.0
Oct 24, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

- Working on software used by millions - High level of respect for established success - Company provided transportation is useful - Extremely large if you want to move around later in your career

Cons

- Bing has Endemic issues with a toxic work environment and broken processes - Conflict is seen as a desirable way to settle all debate - At least at Bing, morale is seen as unimportant

2.0
Oct 24, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I worked there 4 years, and not once did the paycheck bounce or come late. Also, if you want the chance to write code that will be used by millions of people, this is one place you can do it. There are others though.

Cons

I found it impossible to have much on an impact on anything as IC at MS. Also if you have unique skills that not every programmer has, like I do (PhD in theoretical physics) such skills are wasted at a place like MS. If you want to have an impact on things, I found much more success at a small company. It's the whole big fish/small pond thing I suppose.

3.0
Oct 22, 2013

Fair job

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Relatively lay back working hours. People are usually nice. But I heard this really depends on teams. I have friends in some teams that have brutal hours, but their teams generally get more opportunities for promotion. So I think this is fair.

Cons

Stack ranking in the annual review process is brutal. No matter what, they will pick 20% of employees to give bad ratings for.

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