Microsoft Software Development Engineer II reviews

4.1

99% would recommend to a friend

(384 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

84% approve of CEO

93% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer II employees have rated Microsoft with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 384 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer II professionals have an excellent working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer II professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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384 reviews
4.0
Apr 21, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Smart people, interesting work, ability to impact millions of customers, top notch benefits, good work/life balance, virtually unlimited potential for career growth.

Cons

Top-down approach to product design can stifle engineers. There is a lot of process around everything and it's hard to see how it makes us more productive. We stop coding nearly a year before our product ships - how can we ever be an agile company?

5.0
Apr 10, 2009
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Talented people, massive user bases for our products, hard problems to solve, good infrastructure for developers. Opportunities to be a lead if you want to. Microsoft employees take criticism very seriously and respond to it.

Cons

Not likely to get rich anymore, misconceptions by general public.

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