Microsoft Lead Software Development Engineer reviews

4.0

99% would recommend to a friend

(54 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

99% approve of CEO

99% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer Lead employees have rated Microsoft with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 54 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer Lead professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer Lead professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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54 reviews
4.0
Jul 15, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Great opportunity to grow your career. There are vast number of different teams that operate on different principles, different goals, different technologies, you can almost always find a career path that interests you. The ability to work with some of the brightest people out there is something that's often overlooked and taken for granted while you are at Microsoft. Imagine any technical issue you run into, you have access to unlimited technical people, including those that designed the feature. This is invaluable to those geeks like us.

Cons

The size of company has grown to a point where there is too much bureacracy. Decision making are slower than a startup. There are many hoops you have to jump through sometimes to get everyone to buyoff, which means you spend more time on process rather than core engineering.

4.0
Jul 13, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Job security -Work/life balance -Generally, hands off management (good and bad) -Benefits -Technology and knowledge sharing (if you know how to access it) -Being around smart people

Cons

-Fish in a big pool -Parity in pay vs other companies (not bad, not good) -Lifeless stock -Feeling of stifled innovation -More cohesion between groups and people and less competition

4.0
Jul 7, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Micrososft has great benefits, reasonable pay and high quality people. It's diversified line of products and offerings makes it fairly easy to shift technology or business focus without changing employers. The company really bends over backwards to ensure good working conditions and an atmosphere of respect. Career advancement is strongly based on merit.

Cons

In general, the company is suffering from a lack of strong senior leadership and vision. Established divisisions such as Office tend to be highly conservative and bureaucratic while divisions such as Online Services tend to be basket cases of shifting directions and priorities. Cross-divisional politics and a Microsoft tendency towards designing complex and grandiose systems tends to sabotage many promising cross-company initiatives.

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