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
5.0
Sep 8, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Good opportunities for advancement. Easy to change to different teams. Good benefits, transparent review system.

Cons

Too much politics, stack ranking of performance reviews means review ratings highly dependent on current team dynamic.

3.0
Aug 30, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is a great place to learn stuff, and there are often opportunities to transfer among groups to work on things in different areas. There are many talented and knowledgable people around. The company provides very good benefits (the health plan covers all family members). Flexible working hours; and single office.

Cons

Your hardworking and good performance may not be fully appreciated and rewarded in the annual review time. Even if you have done an outstanding job among your teammates, be prepared that you may get just an average review result, for which your manager may not have many convincing reasons but pick on something you didn't do well. Sometimes your review result is determined very subjectively.

2.0
Aug 29, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

A good place to learn desktop based software and code. Good benefit, especially if you would like to have children during that period. I think they provide a very competible benefit, however the total income is just average, maybe below average.

Cons

Some managers have bad personalities and they just focus on their personal benefit but not employees and companys. The software development process is too traditional. Some teams try to improve but in the end they still use what they are familiar. The main reason is that there are so many old guys, who control the entire team and their future.

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