Microsoft Senior Software Engineer reviews

3.9

71% would recommend to a friend

(1,735 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

73% approve of CEO

69% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Microsoft with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,735 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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3.0
Sep 3, 2025

ok

Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Good work life balance work pressure vary team to team

Cons

low salary slow growth partial seniors and management

4.0
Sep 1, 2025
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

if you find a good team, culture and work life balance can be good. poor pay for big tech, but good pay in general.

Cons

layoffs, changing promotion and rewards culture, RTO. messaging from leadership team is poor and most things are heard through back doors

4.0
Aug 31, 2025
Recommend
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Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits, many talented and smart people to learn from, very high expectations, lots of opportunities to learn

Cons

Lots of internal technologies, not relevant outside of MS. Slow, inter team communications and processes. Some sub-par quality work in some teams

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