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
Dec 2, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

1. Great environment to work with lot of flexibility around working hours. 2. If you are in a right team you get chance to work on lot of new and cool stuff. 3. You can easily switch teams within Microsoft if you get bored with current work or team. You can work in different technologies.

Cons

1. Some MS products are in maintenance mode and if you are stuck in those teams there is not much to learn. 2. Management has lot of old guys with 20+ experience who are not adding much value to the company but are holding top posts. 3. Some products do not have clear future road map and they get shut down before reaching the customers.

3.0
Nov 17, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

good benefits. good salary. big company. lot of improvement to grow. lot of other opportunities to move around. blah blah blah blah blah blah

Cons

Lot of stress. Even the performance review system changed, the mindset of the managers never change. They always compare with the same level peers even if the peer has been doing development work since for ever and the other person has just come from SDET to development.

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