Microsoft Senior Software Engineer reviews

3.9

72% would recommend to a friend

(1,742 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

75% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Microsoft with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,742 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Jan 28, 2026
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Pros

- Free health insurance, dental, vision - 50% 401k match - Stock is generally performant

Cons

- RTO / revoking all employee's remote status. - Nearly all tooling is internal, very buggy and slow. Security checks on all deployments make testing a 10m change 5 hours or more. - Have to carry around multiple Windows laptops (Secure Admin Workstation and Corp laptop). - Slow promotion cycles internally - Constant attrition and then picking up work of SME's who left. - Rebuilding the wheel from scratch in many areas and teams, rather than standardizing infrastructure.

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