Microsoft Software Engineer (Software Developer II) reviews

4.0

82% would recommend to a friend

(1,089 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

75% approve of CEO

73% 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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4.0
Jun 29, 2019
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Pros

Extremely interesting project a very large scale. Benefits. Ability to move teams but ... Great work life balance.

Cons

... ability to move teams within the Redmond area mostly. Big gap in culture between people in the Redmond area vs people in Cambridge.

5.0
Apr 17, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent company culture. Wonderful teamwork. Also good work-life balance.

Cons

Toolchains are mostly based on Windows. This could be a limitation when comes to research on available open-source building blocks used in the project.

5.0
Apr 15, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Was my first software engineering position out of college. I benefitted a lot from feedback from more senior engineers and learned good industry practices including things like writing technical designs, giving useful code review feedback, and writing decoupled and testable code. I felt like it prepared me well to take on my next technical role. Also, got to work on some interesting problems while also having pretty good work-life balance

Cons

Sometimes teams can be a little siloed (even feature teams working on the same product) and there can be a lack of communication which results in some wasted effort or different components of a project not cleanly coming together

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