Microsoft Software Development Engineer II reviews

4.1

99% would recommend to a friend

(383 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

84% approve of CEO

93% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer II employees have rated Microsoft with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 383 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer II professionals have an excellent working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer II professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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383 reviews
3.0
Apr 14, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The company has a hand in a lot of things, so you can find something you like. Makes software everyone in the world uses. Career growth is unlimited if you work the system.

Cons

Not open to new ideas. Processess are slow, it easier to create a new process then get rid of an old one. Probably not going to do well going forward in the consumer space.

4.0
Feb 8, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

opportunities to move to other projects inside company (not easy but possible). good health plan especially for people with families, gaining experience of shipping software used by many around the world, decent cafeterias, PRO sports club

Cons

hierarchical structure of the company, stack ranking practices, pay level awareness, micromanagement, doubts about long term prospects of the company, layoffs, limited freedom to select ways how to do stuff, high cost of errors leads to abundance of processes and procedures in many projects

4.0
Dec 28, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Access to cool technology - Ability to impact millions of customers - Lots of smart people - Good learning opportunities if you take initiative - Excellent benefits

Cons

- The company as a whole is averse to taking risks in creating new markets. It lets competitors create and define a new market, then moves in when the competitor is successful (many examples: Search and Google, IPhone and Apple). - Slow moving many times - Many incompetent middle managers - move as quickly as possible out of those teams. - Average salary - Questionable leadership at the very top

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