Microsoft Software Development Engineer II reviews

- benefits are getting cut - some degree of bureaucracy - difficult to find passion - need to give up work-life balance if you want to grow

1. The organization boundary and political fighting is counter productive. 2. Microsoft strongly favors in-house technology. This is not the most efficient way of building new products in some areas especially online business. For developers, some technology you learn won't apply to other places, although in general the experience is useful. 3. To get bigger things done, you need to climb up the corporate ladder, which is very tough. 4. Microsoft doesn't use its resource efficiently, including developer resources.