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      Microsoft Software Engineer reviews

      4.0

      76% would recommend to a friend

      (6,483 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      73% approve of CEO

      64% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Culture & values

      4.0

      Work/Life balance

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.7

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Senior management

      Software Engineer, employees have rated Microsoft with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 6,483 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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      6K reviews
      4.0
      Mar 28, 2015

      Old-school tech company with new-school aspirations

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Pay, benefits, work-life balance all great. Knowing your product will be used by millions. Getting to beta-test pretty much every new MS product. Lots of smart people who care about technology.

      Cons

      Deep management hierarchy can be frustrating. Even your skip-level may not know what is ahead in the next month. Low turnover rate and job cushiness means a surprising amount of mediocre senior devs who don't seem to care as much as they should. Size of company can make it hard to feel significant.

      4.0
      Mar 25, 2015

      Solid benefits, a variety of teams and products

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Good benefits - A variety of teams and products that you can work on - Many smart people - Company is trying to make some changes to be more agile

      Cons

      - Benefits used to be even better - Very large company so you can feel like you're not having much impact at times - Still moves somewhat slow compared to smaller, leaner companies - Changing teams is almost as much effort as changing companies

      3.0
      Mar 20, 2015

      Big company, big benefits, big competittion

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Microsoft can be thought of as a company of companies that's changing it's ways to become united and up to date. Microsoft has very good benefits, perks, and opportunity to work on many things.

      Cons

      Quite bureaucratic and still very much so transitioning to be a agile and modern software company. At times still hold onto old methodologies and practices as well as sticking to old technologies.

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