Microsoft Software Development Enginner-|| reviews

4.1

74% would recommend to a friend

(798 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

56% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Software Development Enginner || employees have rated Microsoft with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 798 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Enginner || professionals have an excellent working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Enginner || professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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798 reviews
4.0
Dec 26, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

I felt like there were good opportunities to work on products with a wide reach. The pay was fair, but not stellar. The benefits were very good.

Cons

When I started, the company felt pretty young, even though it wasn't. Riding bikes or playing Frisbee in the hall were normal. By the time I left, things like that would have been frowned on. The company felt much more corporate.

2.0
Dec 10, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The personal offices, free insurance, nice morale events - all used to be-s...

Cons

No interesting relevant prouts to work on. Very political - all TECHNICAL decisions are made on the basis of how to please the upper ups who are usually - to put it mildly - less technically savvy. What is valued is so called "visibility" rather than true quality of work. And the most ironic of all - while Microsoft is giving the customer one of the best development technologies and environments in the world, it greatly lagging behind in using it for its own products. Management is dominated by the "old school" people who worked in the company at 90s and sometimes in 80s. They invested tremends amount of time in old times coding skills and greatly resent if not always openly resent the use of moving forward with technology and skills coming up with ridiculous excuses to justify it.

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