Microsoft Senior Software Development Engineer reviews

4.3

98% would recommend to a friend

(318 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

99% approve of CEO

98% positive business outlook

Senior Engineer Software Development employees have rated Microsoft with 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 318 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Engineer Software Development professionals have an excellent working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Engineer Software Development professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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318 reviews
5.0
Dec 15, 2015
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Pros

Great company to work for. Microsoft offered competitive salaries as well as very interesting and challenging work.

Cons

Lots of continuous management restructuring. Sometimes it is hard to keep a boss long enough to even built a proper report.

3.0
Dec 11, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits Get to develop leading edge technologies with huge impact Diverse problems to solve

Cons

Stack ranking makes team mates your competition and incites turf wars. Stack ranking can lead to a vicious cycle: Since stack ranking works like a highly stochastic merge sort, if you are a good contributor on a team with superb teammates working on a risky project that does not pan out, you will likely get a poor review, which happened to me after initial good reviews. Being the last rat to leave the sinking ship, I watched my teammates leave for other teams and companies. My poor rating made it impossible to leave my team and lead to continued poor ratings, so I eventually left under duress.

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