Microsoft Software Development Engineer (SDE) II reviews

4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(936 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 936 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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936 reviews
4.0
Aug 11, 2014
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Pros

Pro-customer focus, competitiveness, excellent ability to develop young talent. Highly maternal/paternal, socialistic style of caring for employees.

Cons

Ruthless politics once on a dev lead level; cross divisional animosity; curious inability to hammer out a reasonably fair comp/ranking and rating system.

5.0
Aug 2, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

You will see really motivated people who will motivate you to push yourself. Will learn many new things, and really the learning never ends. You will notice that people who work here are people with high integrity and know how to treat another person with respect and are thorough professionals.

Cons

A company of the size of Microsoft has very different challenges. One of the biggest challenge is collaboration to get your work done. Also, it is very hard to not write code that has been already written. Also, there are one too many re-orgs at the leadership level.

5.0
Aug 1, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very motivated people to work it. You can expect to find people with high integrity and people who respect each other, and be very professional. There are so many aspects to the business, a person can experience almost every industry by just moving from one team to another within the company.

Cons

Microsoft is a really big company and one does face different kind of challenges than other companies. One of them mainly is collaboration. Also, there could be one too many org-changes in the leadership. Training is adequate but sometimes there is not enough experimentation.

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