Microsoft Senior Research Software Development Engineer reviews

4.5

81% would recommend to a friend

(95 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

78% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

Senior Research Software Development Engineer employees have rated Microsoft with 4.5 out of 5 stars, based on 95 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Research Software Development Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Research Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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4.0
Apr 4, 2009
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Pros

It comprises a large and interactive community of employees. For example, there are hundreds of mailing lists that allow people to get together for various activities, from sports on the campus to external work meetups. There are also many high quality and smart people (at least in Research). I'm not that certain about the density of smart people in other departments however. The campus is also pretty nice.

Cons

There is quite a bit of bureaucracy. In research, there seems to be limited tech transfer from research to products. There also seems to be many isolated feifdoms that don't interact much. It would be much better if product groups were more open to each other and less protective of their own domains.

5.0
Aug 24, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

At MSR, you have a chance to work with the best and the brightest -- the caliber of people that would otherwise be on the faculty at a top-tier research university. MSR is pretty much the only surviving old-style industrial research lab in the tradition of Bell Labs and PARC. The compensation starts out good and becomes great as the stock awards ramp up.

Cons

If you are not in Redmond or Beijing, there is very little opportunity to grow beyond an individual contributer role, unless you move out of Research.

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