Microsoft Software Engineer (Software Developer II) reviews

4.0

81% would recommend to a friend

(1,089 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

76% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

Software Engineer (Software Developer II) employees have rated Microsoft with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,089 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer (Software Developer II) professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer (Software Developer II) professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
5.0
Nov 6, 2025

Good Work Culture

Recommend
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Pros

1. Salary is Industry Standard and above. 2. Work life balance is good. 3. WFH options 4. Less office politics 5. Very good joining stock reward

Cons

1. Every year stock refresher is very less. 2. After your on hire stocks for 4 years end you won’t be able to match your salary to first year until you get couple of promotions in these 4 years. 3. After Covid on sites and US opportunities are almost zero.

5.0
Nov 5, 2025

nice place to work

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good work life balance, nice coworkers. Project is decent

Cons

a bit disorganized, lots of red tape, slow promos

2.0
Nov 4, 2025

Continuous Decline

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Name Recognition, Good coworkers, Novel problems to solve

Cons

Culture is continually getting worse: Recurring layoffs, Return of stack ranking, Losing our best engineers to better paying jobs because Microsoft has failed to keep the deal (Lower Pay == Work-Life Balance)

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