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      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

      Ratings by category

      4.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.3

      Culture & values

      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Career opportunities

      3.6

      Senior management

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      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
      Feb 19, 2013

      Great place to work, for what it is.

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Very customer-oriented in terms of feature prioritization. Smart, level-headed coworkers. Good pay and benefits.

      Cons

      Big company, lots of organizational churn, and sideways talk about vision. Also legacy code.

      5.0
      Feb 15, 2013

      If you love building great software in a comfortable and stable environment Microsoft is the place to be.

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great benefits. Lots of learning and career growth opportunities. Top notch work spaces, tools, and support. Very experienced and skilled colleagues.

      Cons

      No passion for innovation and pushing the boundaries. The bottom line (money) always takes top priority when it comes to direction and decision making.

      3.0
      Feb 12, 2013

      Exciting products but boring company

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Microsoft is a huge organization. Your experience would depend on which group you work for and your immediate manager. With risk of generalization, I'll try to describe certain common themes that run throughout the company. * Good Pay and benefits. * Employees are valued and taken care of. * Exciting opportunities available within the company if you get bored of current job. You can live you entire professional life changing teams and jobs to stay motivated or get promoted! * There are a lot of smart people work for this company. They have, arguably, the best talent pool in the industry. * You can maintain work/life balance. Although it is optional. Some people give it up to move up the career ladder like any other company. Staying mediocre is an option which may not be available at many other tech companies and especially not in startup.

      Cons

      * Firstly, On the day of joining you would feel lost. * Old company set in it's ways and hard to affect any changes. * "Not my job" mentality with little sense of ownership. * Little sense of continuous process improvement. Developer productivity is abysmal with broken tools and processes. * Fight for visibility to get promoted and move up the career ladder. * Lots of Engineers choose to remain mediocre because they are still getting promoted! If you want to get motivated to join or start your own startup, join Microsoft! Here you would see worst of malaise of large corporation.

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