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Good Pay, Slow Impact

Software Development Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Microsoft for less than 1 year
June 15, 2010
Redmond, Washington
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Pros

Microsoft is a great deal, overall, for software engineers. The pay is quite decent, and the work/life balance is usually quite good. Sure, there are crunch times once in a while, but more or less, most of the year will be 40-50 hour weeks with decent perks.

Cons

The main problem as a dev is that it can often be very hard to see what impact you are having on the organization. Products can take 6 months to 3 years to ship, and a lot of the time is spent fixing bugs or in meetings.

Advice to Management

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