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

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318 reviews
4.0
Mar 4, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

industry leader. Strong engineer culture. Lots of talent engineers and leaders,lots of great products. Gain Good reputation if you have ever been a ms engineer

Cons

Far away from other rivals. Ms has its own process,architecture,and culture. Ms try to build everything from scratch.this result in a strong engineer team,but could also lead to slowness

2.0
Feb 2, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Nice benefits, some orgs can be slow paced for ease of stress (or Azure which is a constant deathmarch)

Cons

Extremely toxic political environment. People are always fighting over ownership. There is another team in Microsoft doing exactly what you are and you'll clash over them. Lots of reorgs. Horrible open source software policy (It's gotten better, but still horrible).

2.0
Jan 28, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great team members and projects can be interesting challenges (but dated, mostly refactorings or copying existing competition features)

Cons

Managers are only lifers that were hired from college. Tech is still decades behind the competition. Change is slow.

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