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
4.0
Mar 31, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Overall it is good to be part of Microsoft. They pay well, benefits are good. Bonus and stock options are also good.

Cons

Responsibility expectation is huge. Recently, they removed the no-cast medical benefits which make all of employees likely take a big cut in their take home salary. 401K match is only 50% where most of the big companies match 100%. Work-balance is always hard to maintain.

4.0
Feb 26, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great pay, bonuses, opportunity for upward mobility. Wide variety of opportunities.

Cons

Projects are run in such a way as to discourage innovation and exploration. More time spent planning and justifying than doing. Use agile terminology when the environment combines agile and waterfall in a way that robs each of the things that are positive about them. No empowerment to adapt the process to the team and project.

3.0
Feb 24, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

The people are very smart, the compensation is pretty good. The company does pretty much everything under the sun, so if you want to change job functions it's not too difficult.

Cons

The company does not have a good way of accurately gauging talent / motivation. So a lot of very high up people do not have good judgement; they either are loud and can argue until everyone around them gives up, or they happened to be in the right place at the right time.

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