Microsoft Sr. Software Engineer reviews

3.9

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,775 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

74% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Sr. Software Engineer employees have rated Microsoft with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,775 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sr. Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sr. Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Mar 17, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great perks, American style compensation

Cons

Tough environment. Very competitive. Too much red tape from Singapore. Cant get anything done. Feel like a useless cog pushing papers and reports.

3.0
Feb 14, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Smart people, incredible opportunity to work on technology that impacts the whole world, internal tools and support is the best I've seen

Cons

Individual contributors are at the whims of group politics, and the horrible review model perpetuates the infighting. It's very difficult to make any kind of decisions or innovate within the framework of HUGE groups with immense business goals.

3.0
Feb 3, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good pay, good benefits. Large variety of things to work on in the company, but it is hard to get onto the (very few) teams work on new/exciting projects. In some groups it is easy to get lazy if you need to for a while.

Cons

Nearly all your work will involve lots of legacy code. Things move at a very slow pace -- the down time between projects can really drag on.

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