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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1.0
Nov 23, 2017
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Pros

Great office space, perks and compensation, trainings and workshops, flexibility in terms of dress code, work timings etc. There are some people who are smart and efficient.

Cons

The flexibility part highlighted about Microsoft is mostly on paper. Except for trivial things like dress code, work timings the important ones like flexibility to work, express, innovate remains a distant dream. Everything about you is decided by the manager. Your relationship with him and the way he perceives you can make or break your career. The work is crap and extremely mundane especially in Microsoft IT (UST). A software developer ends up spending most of his productive time in pointless discussions, activities like bug fix, deployment, design review which are not relevant to him. The managers here are mostly biased and useless.

5.0
Nov 11, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Great colleagues Awesome benefits Stable company Impact millions of customers Great company on the resume

Cons

Work can slow down depending on your group. Some teams have boring work Career growth is slow at times

5.0
Oct 9, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Challenging yet not overwhelming work, excellent culture that encourages growth mindset, under new leadership and ample opportunities to grow

Cons

Though things have improved a lot, there are still vestiges of the old toxic culture in some teams. So please choose your team and manager wisely before coming here

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