Microsoft Software Development Engineer (SDE) II reviews

4.1

82% would recommend to a friend

(934 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

85% approve of CEO

80% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer (SDE II) employees have rated Microsoft with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 934 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 Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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934 reviews
4.0
Sep 3, 2014

SDE

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Pros

good benefit, ample opportunity to learn and grow, many projects to try

Cons

hard to navigate the office politics

2.0
Sep 3, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Most the campus hires are very talented which strongly contracts the overall team. The working condition is above average in China.

Cons

The engineering culture are stupid. Microsoft has the most ineffective tools I ever known. Most of the tools far are more trouble than they worth. Almost for everyone in the 30-engineers team,the projects are completely meaningless. Long time exposure to them will only make an engineer more stupid. My dev lead was an middle aged loser who religiously follow old technology from companies SAP. He had been constantly playing dirty politics and made himself a fool around everyone in the team. Overall, the management emphasize on your age or diplomacy more than anything else. I doubt whether it's because that's all they got or they simply didn't understand how to evaluate engineers.

5.0
Aug 18, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Microsoft cares for you and wants you to be successful

Cons

Sometimes your peers are better at doing politics vs programming which is unfortunate but I guess any place with this many number of people is bound to have this.

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