Microsoft Software Engineer (Software Developer II) reviews

4.0

82% would recommend to a friend

(1,101 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

75% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Software Engineer (Software Developer II) employees have rated Microsoft with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,101 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer (Software Developer II) professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer (Software Developer II) professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Nov 16, 2023

A very OK job

Recommend
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Pros

- Immediate managers are compassionate and care about your career growth and workload - Work-life balance is better than most places (except for on-call) - Great benefits - Huge focus on accessibility and diversity internally and externally -

Cons

- Technical debt and ageing infrastructure results in a laborious code build & test cycle - On-call can be brutal on low-level cloud teams and heavily damage work-life balance - Lack of automation results in lots of "manual labor" - Generally, a little boring. - Compensation generally lags behind other big tech companies.

3.0
Nov 13, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Under the right team, you'll have incredible flexibility to work whenever and wherever you want.

Cons

Extremely low compensation, and promotions are a joke (5%).

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