Microsoft Software Engineer (Software Developer II) reviews

4.0

82% would recommend to a friend

(1,093 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

75% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Software Engineer (Software Developer II) employees have rated Microsoft with 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,093 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer (Software Developer II) professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer (Software Developer II) professionals compared to other employers within the Informatique industry (3.9 stars).

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1K reviews
2.0
Nov 4, 2025

Continuous Decline

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Name Recognition, Good coworkers, Novel problems to solve

Cons

Culture is continually getting worse: Recurring layoffs, Return of stack ranking, Losing our best engineers to better paying jobs because Microsoft has failed to keep the deal (Lower Pay == Work-Life Balance)

4.0
Oct 31, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Microsoft is one of the best companies in the industry for employee culture and policies. They really value the growth of their employees. Extremely diverse environments to work in and internally switching is very easy.

Cons

In-hand money is not as competitive in the industry

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