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Software Developer experience at Microsoft

Software Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Microsoft for 4 years
August 22, 2017
Redmond, Washington
4.0
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Pros

Microsoft pays well and has lots of good benefits with resources to help with them. They really do care about their employees there and will give the resources needed to get the job done more often than not.

Cons

They have a habit of laser-focusing developers into a single area of development. While internal transfer opportunities are available, it's like re-interviewing for your own job. If you're moving from, say, cloud development to web development, it can be very difficult.

Don't expect full-stack roles.

Advice to Management

Give better, transparent feedback to your direct reports, especially to skip-level ones if it's appropriate.

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