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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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384 reviews
4.0
Jul 11, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of interesting problems to solve, lots of challenges if one so desires. Many smart people are around to bounce ideas off from.

Cons

Many ideas are just sparks that are later put off by bureaucracy. Many challenging problems end up with bug-prone patch works with a single goal of meeting self-inflicted deadlines. Smart people can be harder to work with, incompetent people are also sometimes pretend to be smart.

3.0
Jun 20, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great benefits (connector bus that picks you up in neighbourhoods scattered throughout Seattle area and drops you off at work, connecting you with WIFI. Locker rooms, and great incentives to bicycle to work Great resources - Microsoft library, access to online training, internal tools, access to Microsoft products developers.

Cons

- Company is slow to react to external competition because it is such a huge ship it is trying to turn course but has so much mass and excess baggage its not as nimble as smaller companies. - Some acquisitions are complete failures, it appears MS is on its mission to acquire its technology vs develop it in house... MS you HAVE the talent and resources in house, there is no reason to spend billions on acquisitions. Elimination of its SDETS and Infra teams, placing onus on developers (and even worse customers) to maintain quality and infrastructure... This is having impact on quality, and not directly impacting the company is riding on what was in place before the SDET role was eliminated, this quality 'lag' will catch up...

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