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      Microsoft Software Engineer reviews

      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (6,478 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      73% approve of CEO

      65% 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 6,478 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
      1.0
      Aug 1, 2010

      Infighting and politics. Extremely bad and depressing culture!

      Developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good health benefit. Private office room.

      Cons

      Favirism, backstabbing, brown nosing. Unfair performance review. Company culture encourages infighting and backstabbing. Your career is completely controlled by your manager. Requires working much more than 40 hours/wk. Many arrogant and rude coworkers. No human dignity. In summary: Politics!!!!! No management!

      4.0
      May 6, 2010

      Great, laid-back place to work

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Schedules very flexible, freedom to do what you want, working with lots of other very smart engineers, and good low-to-middle level management. A fun place to work, where the rules are lax, and you have the opportunity to mostly work on what excites you.

      Cons

      Incompetent senior management, many products end up being mediocre due to a lack of vision and execution from the top. At the end of each day, I would say I had fun, but ultimately my work has little positive impact on the outside world. A lot of empire building, and resistance to improvement or change.

      3.0
      Feb 8, 2010

      big company on the down way

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      a lot of teams you could choose to jump if needed, though not many openings in the past 2 years

      Cons

      if you dropped to bottom 10% of performance, you are done. Unlike the years before 2009, they will cut off those guys

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