Microsoft Software Engineer (Software Developer II) reviews

3.9

81% would recommend to a friend

(1,087 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

75% approve of CEO

71% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer II employees have rated Microsoft with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,087 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer II professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer Engineer II professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Jun 4, 2026
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Pros

pay & benefits, though TC still lags behind other tech giants

Cons

- all in on AI, which results in cognitive offloading and terrible onboarding (eg. asking coworkers how to do something yields a "just ask copilot" response) - specific to me, but terrible micro-managing environment - specific to me, but was hired onto a hybrid 3/week role that turned into 5/week shortly after being hired - which doesn't make a whole lot of sense because my team is spread across different countries so I'm still in remote calls all the time. - antiquated tech stack, frustrating to use - no standardization on docs means there's simultaneously too much and too little, with lots of broken links - everything is set up to prevent you from getting things done. Tools take too long to load, webpages operate at a crawl, ADO is a terrible product with terrible UX and load times, teams is a godawful product, etc etc

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