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      4.1

      74% would recommend to a friend

      (819 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      57% approve of CEO

      60% positive business outlook

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      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 Enginner || employees have rated Microsoft with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 819 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Enginner || professionals have an excellent working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Enginner || professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      819 reviews
      4.0
      Jun 22, 2009

      A good place to work if you understand what you are getting into

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      1. Working on hard problems that impact people's lives. 2. Benefits, especially 100% medical coverage. 3. Great training program. 4. Management assigns a task and gets out of the way allowing me to do it how I feel is best.

      Cons

      1. It is a big company and many times politics is just as important, if not more so, than the validity of the project. 2. Hearing people talk about how much the products suck gets old. 3. A feeling that change happens to slow to keep up with the market.

      5.0
      Apr 3, 2009

      Great place to start your career

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Massive brand name recognition. Lots of learning opportunities, challenging projects, brilliant co-workers and of course a resume builder. The breadth of opportunities at Microsoft is unparalleled. From Operating Systems, Compilers/IDE's, Games, Hardware, Web Services, Office tools these guys have done it all. There is something for everyone there. Also the benefits are really good as compared to others.

      Cons

      Lots of competition. The developer interns have to be really good to be noticed by senior employees. You are expected to work long hours. Since I have not worked there for very long I have not felt any other downsides.

      3.0
      Jan 30, 2009

      Good place to start your career at.

      Software development engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      You constanly work with the latest Microsoft technologies. You have hundreds of product groups that you can interview with to find one that you very interested in. You work with smart people for the most part. So you can grow professionally unlike any other place.

      Cons

      No exposure to the real world, technologies on other platoforms. Most of the time you are competing with your team mates for a good review. This fosters a poisonous environment, lack of cooperations, backstabbing and so on. This is perhaps the biggest downside to working at Microsoft. However, most other large companies have similar issues.

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