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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4.0
Jan 18, 2017

An ok place to work

Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits! Ok Perks You get access to ALL Microsoft products to do your job Worklife balance is great, sometimes it may be too good.

Cons

Some teams are stuck on older technologies (like Office) which just make your career growth not as good as other places.

4.0
Jan 9, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Work/Life balance, Great Benefits, Flexible Work Hours - Friendly environment, nice international culture - Microsoft recently started accepting OpenSource and Linux as a reality. Windows 10 native support for Ubuntu Bash and Microsoft's contribution in github are examples of the new trend. - Microsoft is serious about its cloud business. - MSFT rewards loyalty; if you stay you will get promotion, bonus, etc.

Cons

- Microsoft's OpenSource culture is still an infant. A lot of company's time is wasted in reinventing the wheel due to the lack of a proper culture for reusing what already is available as a third party library. Hopefully this will get better over time but at slow pace. - It is harder to make your contribution visible due to the nature of big companies. - If you end up working in old product teams (e.g., Office) you may end up maintaining old code that you inherit and so you won't learn much new technologies.

5.0
Dec 22, 2016

Great.

Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance, good people, good management in general. Tuition assistance, good insurance

Cons

Bad cafeteria, bad tooling, some level of attrition. Salary comoared to fb and google and amazon is lower.

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