Microsoft Software Developer reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(6,424 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

73% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Microsoft with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 6,424 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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5.0
Mar 29, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Good exposure to executives, good exposure to smart people and access to product groups across the company, good spirit of camaraderie towards one mission.

Cons

Culture can be somewhat rigid compared to other tech companies and varies greatly between teams, not much company investment into employee groups and activities, almost no company sponsored morale-type events.

4.0
Mar 28, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Pay, benefits, work-life balance all great. Knowing your product will be used by millions. Getting to beta-test pretty much every new MS product. Lots of smart people who care about technology.

Cons

Deep management hierarchy can be frustrating. Even your skip-level may not know what is ahead in the next month. Low turnover rate and job cushiness means a surprising amount of mediocre senior devs who don't seem to care as much as they should. Size of company can make it hard to feel significant.

4.0
Mar 25, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Good benefits - A variety of teams and products that you can work on - Many smart people - Company is trying to make some changes to be more agile

Cons

- Benefits used to be even better - Very large company so you can feel like you're not having much impact at times - Still moves somewhat slow compared to smaller, leaner companies - Changing teams is almost as much effort as changing companies

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