Microsoft Software Developer reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(6,452 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

73% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Microsoft with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 6,452 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
2.0
Aug 3, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits, lots of projects,

Cons

Limited ability to move around, review process severely broken, a culture that encourages prima donna behavior.

1.0
Aug 1, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good health benefit. Private office room.

Cons

Favirism, backstabbing, brown nosing. Unfair performance review. Company culture encourages infighting and backstabbing. Your career is completely controlled by your manager. Requires working much more than 40 hours/wk. Many arrogant and rude coworkers. No human dignity. In summary: Politics!!!!! No management!

4.0
May 6, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Schedules very flexible, freedom to do what you want, working with lots of other very smart engineers, and good low-to-middle level management. A fun place to work, where the rules are lax, and you have the opportunity to mostly work on what excites you.

Cons

Incompetent senior management, many products end up being mediocre due to a lack of vision and execution from the top. At the end of each day, I would say I had fun, but ultimately my work has little positive impact on the outside world. A lot of empire building, and resistance to improvement or change.

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