Microsoft Software Engineer I/II reviews

4.0

84% would recommend to a friend

(1,070 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

77% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Software Engineer I/II employees have rated Microsoft with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,070 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer I/II professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer I/II professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
3.0
Dec 27, 2025

Overrated

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Pays very well for local market

Cons

Terribly mismanaged, ridiculously low and strict budgets for anything employee-related, even more so than early-stage startups

2.0
Dec 25, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- work is decent, sometimes challenging and good - good benefits

Cons

- Security org jeez, charged on politics - No one has no empathy whatsoever - Everything is urgent until something *more* urgent comes along. no long-term vision whatsoever - as a byproduct of all the cons above, work-life balance is crap.

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