Microsoft Software Developer reviews

4.0

76% would recommend to a friend

(6,428 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

73% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Microsoft with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 6,428 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
Feb 24, 2026

Awesome

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

A lot of perks and options

Cons

None, good WLB and culture

3.0
Feb 23, 2026

Good WLB

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good Work life balance and learning opportunities

Cons

Pay is significantly lower than other big tech and stock bonuses are vested over 5 years.

3.0
Feb 22, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- flexible working hours - decent mix of people, mostly basic but some really great ones here and there.

Cons

- lot of beaureaucracy, too many stakeholders involved, need to talk to so many people to get things shipped - no motivation, people in the company are here to play pool and TT and have coffee and attend a few meetings, not here to build stuff - average pay, you can only hope the stock rises.

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