Microsoft Software Engineer (Software Developer II) reviews

4.0

82% would recommend to a friend

(1,094 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 1,094 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
Jan 19, 2021
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Pros

Management recognizes hard work and/or talent. Good culture, employees are majority upbeat. Workspace is modern and beautiful. Work-life balance is encouraged.

Cons

For being a top 4 tech company, pay is significantly lower than 4 closest competitors. Team dependant.. but management has a tendency to ignore large technical problems.. or under estimate complexity of projects leading to false starts and resets where we have to dig out of the hole we find ourselves in. Commonly, a virtual team prototypes with no domain knowledge, ships it, gets rewards, and hands off maintenance to the experts to fix. Maintaining team is expected to pull miracle fixes out but isn't rewarded proportional to the challenge. Horizontal hops are disproportionately rewarded vs. consistent top contributors.

5.0
Jan 19, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

if you're on a good team, it's a lot of fun. lot of great resources available at microsoft. if you're on a bad team, it's easy to switch.

Cons

typical stuff you'd hear about a really big company

5.0
Jan 18, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits (parental leave, health insurance) Supportive management, "growth mindset" rather than a fear of failure Lots of opportunities to move around

Cons

Lots of old code to maintain, migrate, re-write Lots of old processes to upgrade (deployment, infrastructure, frameworks)

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