Microsoft Software Development Engineer reviews

4.1

74% would recommend to a friend

(825 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

57% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer, employees have rated Microsoft with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 825 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer, professionals have an excellent working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer, professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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825 reviews
3.0
Jul 8, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefit and nice people, little pressure if you are not very ambitious.

Cons

Red tape and politics, not the place for young people. Microsoft as a whole is very good tech company but everything is different in Japan.

4.0
Jun 30, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

> Lots of learning for freshers - most people are helpful in teaching freshers about software practices and technologies > Flexible work - can go to office and leave office at any time - can work at our own pace and time > Open minded employees - it is a relief to step into office and find people with whom you can share any crazy idea

Cons

> Profit and Impact driven - focus is more on domain knowledge than on programming skills and coding standards. Good code is seldom appreciated > Too much QA work - since there is no test role, devs who write production code spend more time in testing than in development > Less inclined to open source technologies and primarily focused on MS tech - this is slowly changing now but there is a lot to improve

2.0
Jun 29, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Microsoft has excellent benefits, far beyond the substantial salary they provide, along with largely supporting excellent causes.

Cons

Microsoft absolutely does not care about entry level employees. As a whole, the company is extremely nepotistic, and upper management is completely unwilling to be critical to themselves or their subordinates. Ultimately, solidity of ideas, and data are simply proxies for interpersonal battles, with the actual ideas being unobserved.

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