Microsoft Software Developer reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(6,422 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

73% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Microsoft with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 6,422 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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6K reviews
5.0
Sep 9, 2012

Software Developer

Recommend
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Pros

Work-life balance is awesome and also the great managers you get here.

Cons

Change in focus and re-organizations due to frequent management change.

3.0
Sep 6, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1) Can get to work on various products and platform infra. 2) Very open and free environment Rest you should make up ur mind

Cons

Sometimes lot of processes need to be followed like any other big firm can hold you back a bit. Huge process of performance review etc can look frustrating and hard to understand.

4.0
Sep 5, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Good compensation - Good work/life balance - Definitely get to work on interesting and fascinating things.

Cons

- Toxic politicized yearly review system means the focus is on individual competition rather than team collaboration. - Very difficult to find the right people to connect with to get things done, simply a matter of scale. As a result, company probably runs at 10% efficiency just due to churn and communications loss. - A lot of people have bought the kool-aid, which leads to some poor decisions.

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