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      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

      Ratings by category

      4.8

      Work/Life balance

      4.7

      Culture & values

      4.7

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.3

      Career opportunities

      3.9

      Senior management

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      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
      2.0
      Jun 18, 2008

      Microsoft is "old", development is not exciting or educating, performance evaluation is simply unfair.

      Software development engineer ii
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      Pros

      Salaries are not bad compared to competitors. Several different projects that you can work on. Several different technologies that you can work on. Very good internal training programs.

      Cons

      Promotions and performance reviews are unfair and mostly just political. Not much innovative work is going on. Projects are mostly "rewriting the old stuff for the sake of rewriting". Several developers are not competent enough and write impossible to maintain code.

      3.0
      Jun 12, 2008

      Great place to start a career

      Software development engineer ii
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      Pros

      For people just starting their careers Microsoft is an amazing place to gain experience. You will be involved with decision making and building products with huge reach. The workplace is a highly energetic one, where everyone is focused on one thing primarily, how to ship great software and products. You will learn as much about the business of software as you will about actually building it. To thrive in this environment you really need to be passionate about your work and the products you'll help build. You will be working with some of the highest caliber people in the industry and expect to be challenged when just starting out like you have never been challenged. You will start with little responsibility and will need to prove yourself to take on bigger pieces. In my opinion, the people you will collaborate with and learn from is one of the most valuable things you will gain by working at Microsoft.

      Cons

      The environment is filled with an unnatural distribution of highly intelligent and passionate people and is very charged. It's not uncommon to hear full on yelling when there are disagreements. In fact this is almost part of the Microsoft culture. This certainly varies from team to team, the older more established teams following this pattern more closely. This can take a little getting used to depending on where you're coming from. Every team has it's own culture for how they reward their employees and how they're centered. Dev centered organizations place the most value around the output of developers writting the product code. Other orgs are more equally balanced between value placed on dev, test and PM.

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