Microsoft Software Development Engineer II reviews

4.1

99% would recommend to a friend

(383 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 383 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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383 reviews
5.0
Sep 28, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Microsoft is a great place to work for. It respects diversity and provide everybody with the experience he/she wants. It also has alot of teams with different domains in Software Development and Research.

Cons

Microsoft is a big company and hence it has big responsibility which put some load on every employee time and effort.

3.0
Sep 27, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

- Smart people, relaxed work environment, decent compensation, good benefits - Decent opportunities for growth - interesting projects

Cons

- Short-sighted strategy at management level, seems management wants to show short-term gains, get their bonuses, and move on. Ambitious projects with little vision are started and killed later or shipped half-baked (and the plug is soon pulled) - NIH syndrome, and reluctance to adopt industry standards - SteveB is CEO

4.0
Sep 14, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

Get to work mostly on what I want, Microsoft paid for all my tuition for my computer science degree, satisfied with promotion rate, get to work with really smart people

Cons

Performance reviews are based on a curve; they have you competing against individuals on your own team as well as the org you're in. So, it's sort of a dog-eat-dog world...

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