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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3.0
Sep 30, 2016

Politics!

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits, great career opportunities, lots and lots of different products to work for. You can move around between teams as much as you can. Lots of smart people, you get to build stuff with them and learn.

Cons

Lots of politics. Depending on who your manager is, getting a promo can go from being completely based on your performance to being completely based on politics and how you play the game. It's really heartbreaking to see managers make bad engineering decisions, deliver half-baked results and still get promoted. Every team in the company has a tremendous amount of technical debt that will never be addressed but will always be a problem. Constant reorgs also contribute to people not really caring about the long term and just focusing on delivering something immediately.

4.0
Sep 22, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- A great place to learn from smart people around you. - Good pay and benefits - Great office campus in India

Cons

- Bureaucracy may sometimes hinder somewhat simple tasks - Work-life balance depends a lot on your team and the particular manager

5.0
Sep 20, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits, Salary, Very large company, if you're lucky to be on the right team you'll be working on some of the most cutting edge technologies

Cons

If you're unlucky and end up in the wrong team, life isn't going to be good :)

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