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Software Development Engineer (SDE) II
Former Employee
Worked at Microsoft for 2 years
November 22, 2015
Bellevue, Washington
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Pros

Lots of opportunities are provided to learn and grow, and it's easy to move around within the company to pursue your career. My manager was quite hands-off in the day-to-day work, trusting employees to know how to do their jobs, which was empowering and allowed us to be very effective.

Cons

It can be very hard to get information related to your current work because it is such a large organization, and information didn't flow unless asked for. Turn over on our teams was high, so there were lots of legacy systems no one knew anything about, but that were critical to the business.

Advice to Management

In the area I worked, turnover was very high and morale was very low.

There was not a lot of sense of teamwork, and so people regularly looked for challenges elsewhere.

I think in our case, I would find a way to build a cohesive team that works together to solve challenges.

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