Microsoft Software Development Engineer (SDE) II reviews

4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(935 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

86% approve of CEO

82% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer (SDE II) employees have rated Microsoft with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 935 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer (SDE II) professionals have an excellent working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer (SDE II) professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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935 reviews
4.0
Sep 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Great people, friendly talented and open but this is the Bing team. Great benefits, stocks, allowances and flexible hours All depends on your manager Steve Ballmer is gone :D Changing culture after Satya came, becoming more or moving towards a more agile company (trying to enstill the startup culture)

Cons

Company is huge and takes a lot of time to act on opportunities (but changing) Undervalules employees compared to redmond since there is a huge currancy difference and market prices are very low

4.0
Sep 3, 2014

SDE

Recommend
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Pros

good benefit, ample opportunity to learn and grow, many projects to try

Cons

hard to navigate the office politics

2.0
Sep 3, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Most the campus hires are very talented which strongly contracts the overall team. The working condition is above average in China.

Cons

The engineering culture are stupid. Microsoft has the most ineffective tools I ever known. Most of the tools far are more trouble than they worth. Almost for everyone in the 30-engineers team,the projects are completely meaningless. Long time exposure to them will only make an engineer more stupid. My dev lead was an middle aged loser who religiously follow old technology from companies SAP. He had been constantly playing dirty politics and made himself a fool around everyone in the team. Overall, the management emphasize on your age or diplomacy more than anything else. I doubt whether it's because that's all they got or they simply didn't understand how to evaluate engineers.

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