Microsoft Software Engineer reviews

4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(6,490 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

73% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Software Engineer, employees have rated Microsoft with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 6,490 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer, professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer, professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Dec 7, 2015

Software Engineer II

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Pros

Good benefit, Big company with lot of areas, Work-life balance

Cons

Some division is slow on turn around so It's not good to stay on a position for long time (like more than 2 years?) unless you bet on stay here for entire career life without been laied-off

3.0
Dec 2, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

The last team I worked with was very new, excited and agile. Product was fresh and enthusiasm was amazing. Managers were smart, really smart and did a great job of balancing their vision for the product with my interest and capabilities.

Cons

Not all teams at IDC have exciting work, especially products that have been around for ages. Non agile teams are plenty here and it's very slow paced and monotonous often. It's pure luck, your experience could be very different depending on what team you join, since the work at MS itself spans so many domains. Too many re-organizations within vertical divisions, and people and teams keep moving too often.

5.0
Nov 20, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

You can find any technology-related task and don't have to change your employer if you want, for example, to do data science or hardware design instead of computer science.

Cons

If you land in a wrong group you might be mismanaged, as everywhere

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