Microsoft Software Development Engineer II reviews

4.1

99% would recommend to a friend

(384 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

84% approve of CEO

93% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer II employees have rated Microsoft with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 384 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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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384 reviews
4.0
Dec 28, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

- Access to cool technology - Ability to impact millions of customers - Lots of smart people - Good learning opportunities if you take initiative - Excellent benefits

Cons

- The company as a whole is averse to taking risks in creating new markets. It lets competitors create and define a new market, then moves in when the competitor is successful (many examples: Search and Google, IPhone and Apple). - Slow moving many times - Many incompetent middle managers - move as quickly as possible out of those teams. - Average salary - Questionable leadership at the very top

4.0
Oct 20, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The salary is awesome, there are tons of challenging problems to work on such that there is basically "infinite work" - you have to gauge yourself. The weather in CA is beautiful. Everyone that works here are incredibly smart and usually highly motivated. The software Microsoft sells literally changes the world!

Cons

Career growth is somewhat limited compared to what you could possibly achieve if you started your own company, which is what I want to do eventually. The anonymity of a huge corporation can lead some people to apathy, which can be annoying when you are working your ass off.

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