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
2.0
Jan 16, 2011
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Pros

Difficult challenges. Learn to build large scale software. Colleagues are pretty smart folks.

Cons

Large and small scale politics. If you upset the wrong person for whatever reason prepare to have your career derailed. The review process is a joke and widely considered a popularity contest. Being "calibrated" against others in your level band and requiring leadership to decide on the bottom 10% each year. You could have 10 great people on your team, but you have to single out one as a 10%'er. Which basically means they might as well be fired.

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