Microsoft Software Development Engineer reviews

4.1

74% would recommend to a friend

(825 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

57% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer, employees have rated Microsoft with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 825 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer, professionals have an excellent working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer, professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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825 reviews
3.0
Jan 30, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
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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.

4.0
Jan 18, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The health benefits are great. Being able to shut the door and concentrate on what you're working on is a big plus for many. The atmosphere among QA/Devs in the MSTV group was always professional. I had several different managers over the course of the 5 years I was there and I felt they were helpful in career advice / planning and gave honest reviews. Excellent internal discussion lists allow you to chime in and discuss products / issues across the company.

Cons

Company felt like it had too many layers of managers. People outside the company can be snide when they discover your employer is microsoft; I had more than a dozen incidents here in Silicon Valley where people got verbally hostile once they found out where I worked. Traffic on the main highway outside the SV Campus is a nightmare at rush hour. You'll eventually feel like you're camped out inside microsoft while your buddies on the outside are having fun making heroic stuff happen at startups.

4.0
Dec 24, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of teams, some of which are filled with talented people and doing really interesting work. Very good benifits, and respectable base compensation for the industry. Definitely a company built by engineers, so you get treated with respected as an IC. Direct technical managers are usually very good.

Cons

Big company bureaucracy and politics. Upper management is frequently out of touch and doesn't communicate well on product direction.

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