Microsoft Software Developer reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(6,426 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

73% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Software Developer Engineer employees have rated Microsoft with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 6,426 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Mar 20, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

decent wlb unless you're a tech lead

Cons

no budget for promo even when team is important and high impact and you deliver lots of processes and bureaucracy, slowing everyone down people care a lot about titles, doesn't feel like more senior engineers are incentivised to mentor junior engineers so bus factor is ~1 for many project areas

1.0
Mar 19, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I liked the way things were before Satya seems to have lost control of internal strategy and culture.

Cons

Senior management seems directionless. Layoff, after restructure, after re-org, after layoff.....

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