Microsoft Software Development Enginner-|| reviews

4.1

74% would recommend to a friend

(798 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

56% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Software Development Enginner || employees have rated Microsoft with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 798 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Enginner || professionals have an excellent working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Enginner || professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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798 reviews
3.0
Nov 20, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Microsoft is a giant ship and it has many internal tools & platforms to improve your productivity. Working experience at Bing is also very useful for getting the other jobs in the internet industry.

Cons

Tech stack is MS specific and not open like others. Many middle level managers & principal engineers were from MS' office or windows team, which have limited experiences in search technology.

5.0
Nov 20, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

People: enthusiastic and smart. It is a pleasure to work with most individuals. Also, as an expat in Copenhagen, more than half of my friends group are current or ex-colleagues at Microsoft. Agility: most we do is relevant work, with no stiff procedures to get in the way. We are trying out various ways of managing projects, and not limiting ourselves to a given formula (although scrum has been the thing for a few years, until we moved on). Technology: depending on the team / most teams work on quite exciting stuff.

Cons

Most of the teams are on weekly on-call support (including nights). Some teams have been asked to work weekends (both Sat and Sun) for several months (and consequently many people left Microsoft because of this). Promotions are much slower than in the rest of the industry. You can get stuck in some "dead end" teams, as internal transfers within the same product are much more difficult than just leaving for another company or another product.

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