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Microsoft Corporation Software Engineer II Reviews

Updated 20 Dec, 2024

Overall Rating

4.2/5

based on 26 reviews

Rating distribution

10 (38.5%)

13 (50.0%)

1 (3.8%)

Category Ratings

4.2

Company culture

4.1

Work-life balance

3.9

Salary

3.5

Job security

3.4

Skill development

3.3

Promotions

3.3

Work satisfaction

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100% employees reported

Flexible timing

100% employees reported

No travel

92% employees reported

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Gender based rating

4.2

Rated by Women

6 reviews

4.2

Rated by Men

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Software Engineer II in Redmond, WA

Software Development Department

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

Category Ratings

3.0

Salary

4.0

Skill development

5.0

Job security

4.0

Promotions

4.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

5.0

Work-life balance

posted on 12 Feb 2022

Likes

Plenty of projects to work on with various technology and complexity. You can transfer from one team to another and change even your coding language.

Skill development - Good
Job security - Excellent
Promotions - Good
Work satisfaction - Good
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Excellent

Dislikes

Slightly slow promotion rate, low compensation compared to FAANG, low SSA

Work Details

Works in Windows team looking for vulnerabilities in Windows developer API and release security updates timely.

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Software Engineer II in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Full Time

Software Development Department

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

Category Ratings

5.0

Salary

3.0

Skill development

4.0

Job security

3.0

Promotions

3.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

5.0

Work-life balance

posted on 20 Dec 2024

Likes

Culture, people and work life balance.

Salary - Excellent
Job security - Good
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Excellent

Dislikes

Processes, Slow growth.

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Software Engineer II in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Full Time

Software Development Department

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

Category Ratings

4.0

Salary

3.0

Skill development

3.0

Job security

3.0

Promotions

3.0

Work satisfaction

4.0

Company culture

3.0

Work-life balance

posted on 25 Feb 2023

Likes

Good company culture and perks.

Salary - Good
Company culture - Good

Dislikes

Little work life balance.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Software Engineer II in Bangalore / Bengaluru

Full Time

Software Development Department

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

Category Ratings

5.0

Salary

4.0

Skill development

1.0

Job security

4.0

Promotions

5.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

1.0

Work-life balance

posted on 21 Feb 2023

Likes

Good benefits

Salary - Excellent
Skill development - Good
Promotions - Good
Work satisfaction - Excellent
Company culture - Excellent

Dislikes

Poor Management and leadership

Job security - Bad
Work-life balance - Bad

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Software Engineer II in Bangalore / Bengaluru

Full Time

Software Development Department

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

Category Ratings

5.0

Salary

3.0

Skill development

4.0

Job security

5.0

Promotions

3.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

5.0

Work-life balance

posted on 17 Apr 2023

Likes

Work-life balance.

Salary - Excellent
Job security - Good
Promotions - Excellent
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Excellent

Dislikes

Job Security is not guaranteed.

Software Engineer II in Bangalore / Bengaluru

Full Time

Software Development Department

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

Category Ratings

2.0

Salary

2.0

Skill development

4.0

Job security

2.0

Promotions

3.0

Work satisfaction

4.0

Company culture

4.0

Work-life balance

posted on 13 Mar 2023

Likes

Work life balance

Job security - Good
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Good

Dislikes

No learning/career growth

Salary - Poor
Skill development - Poor
Promotions - Poor

Software Engineer II in Noida

Full Time

IT & Information Security Department

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

Category Ratings

4.0

Salary

3.0

Skill development

1.0

Job security

2.0

Promotions

3.0

Work satisfaction

1.0

Company culture

3.0

Work-life balance

posted on 17 Mar 2023

Likes

Benefits & office

Salary - Good

Dislikes

Work life balance

Job security - Bad
Promotions - Poor
Company culture - Bad

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Software Engineer II in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Full Time

Software Development Department

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

Category Ratings

3.0

Salary

3.0

Skill development

2.0

Job security

3.0

Promotions

3.0

Work satisfaction

3.0

Company culture

3.0

Work-life balance

posted on 31 Jan 2023

Likes

office timings

Dislikes

salary, job security

Job security - Poor

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Software Engineer II in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Software Development Department

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

Category Ratings

3.0

Salary

4.0

Skill development

3.0

Job security

3.0

Promotions

3.0

Work satisfaction

4.0

Company culture

5.0

Work-life balance

posted on 28 Oct 2022

Likes

Good environment. Good benefits and lots of opportunity to move internally.

Skill development - Good
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Excellent

Dislikes

Gender bias. Opportunities are given more D&I candidates. Lot's of re-shuffling/re-orgs. Depending on the org, leadership can be weak.

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This job involves International Travel.

Software Engineer II in Bangalore / Bengaluru

Software Development Department

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

Category Ratings

5.0

Salary

5.0

Skill development

4.0

Job security

2.0

Promotions

4.0

Work satisfaction

4.0

Company culture

5.0

Work-life balance

posted on 29 Sep 2022

Likes

Great Managers, Focus on long term financial gains(stocks) for employees, Great Diversity and Inclusion initiatives,

Salary - Excellent
Skill development - Excellent
Job security - Good
Work satisfaction - Good
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Excellent

Dislikes

Cash increments, promotions, administrative processes

Promotions - Poor

Work Details

Work policy: Mutually agreed percentage, between employee and manager. You can choose 100% WFH as well as 100% WFO.

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Software Engineer II in Redmond

Azure Department

3.0

Overall Rating

3.0

Category Ratings

1.0

Salary

1.0

Skill development

1.0

Job security

1.0

Promotions

1.0

Work satisfaction

1.0

Company culture

1.0

Work-life balance

posted on 19 Aug 2022

Likes

Managers are jerks and too political. Salary is bad. Wlb is screwed.

Dislikes

Managers are jerks. You will never get what they promised. They get all personal and too political, all that is not okay.

Salary - Bad
Skill development - Bad
Job security - Bad
Promotions - Bad
Work satisfaction - Bad
Company culture - Bad
Work-life balance - Bad

Work Details

Work policy: 2 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Software Engineer II (working remotely)

Full Time

IT Security Department

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

Category Ratings

4.0

Salary

5.0

Skill development

4.0

Job security

4.0

Promotions

4.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

5.0

Work-life balance

posted on 09 Apr 2023

Likes

Work life balance

Salary - Good
Skill development - Excellent
Job security - Good
Promotions - Good
Work satisfaction - Good
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Excellent

Dislikes

Tech stack

Software Engineer II in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Software Development Department

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

Category Ratings

3.0

Salary

4.0

Skill development

4.0

Job security

4.0

Promotions

3.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

5.0

Work-life balance

posted on 14 Oct 2022

Likes

Culture. Great folks to work with.

Skill development - Good
Job security - Good
Promotions - Good
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Excellent

Dislikes

Not Applicable. A good company to work with

Software Engineer II in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Technical Department

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

Category Ratings

4.0

Salary

3.0

Skill development

4.0

Job security

3.0

Promotions

3.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

4.0

Work-life balance

posted on 11 Sep 2022

Likes

Salary - Good
Job security - Good
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Good

Dislikes

No particular dislikes as such

Work Details

Work policy: 3 days/week from office

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Software Engineer II in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

Information Technology Department

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

Category Ratings

5.0

Salary

5.0

Skill development

5.0

Job security

5.0

Promotions

5.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

5.0

Work-life balance

posted on 08 Sep 2022

Likes

it has proper work life balance

Salary - Excellent
Skill development - Excellent
Job security - Excellent
Promotions - Excellent
Work satisfaction - Excellent
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Excellent

Dislikes

everything is good there. The campus is very big. loved it

Software Engineer II in Hyderabd

Software Development Department

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

Category Ratings

4.0

Salary

5.0

Skill development

5.0

Job security

4.0

Promotions

5.0

Work satisfaction

4.0

Company culture

5.0

Work-life balance

posted on 26 May 2022

Likes

Challenging work make every day interesting and employee benefits also make you feel happy.

Salary - Good
Skill development - Excellent
Job security - Excellent
Promotions - Good
Work satisfaction - Excellent
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Excellent

Dislikes

Compensation would have been better

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Software Engineer II in Bangalore / Bengaluru

Engineering Department

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

Category Ratings

3.0

Salary

4.0

Skill development

5.0

Job security

5.0

Promotions

5.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

5.0

Work-life balance

posted on 24 Nov 2021

Likes

- Work Culture - Work Life Balance - Freedom - Benefits - Care for Family

Skill development - Good
Job security - Excellent
Promotions - Excellent
Work satisfaction - Excellent
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Excellent

Dislikes

Not the best of tech in the industry - but gradually improving

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Software Engineer II in Hyderabad / Secunderabad

IDC Department

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

Category Ratings

4.0

Salary

3.0

Skill development

5.0

Job security

4.0

Promotions

3.0

Work satisfaction

5.0

Company culture

5.0

Work-life balance

posted on 30 Jun 2022

Likes

Company policies

Salary - Good
Job security - Excellent
Promotions - Good
Company culture - Excellent
Work-life balance - Excellent

Dislikes

None

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Software Engineer II in Noida

Software Development Department

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

Category Ratings

3.0

Salary

4.0

Skill development

5.0

Job security

5.0

Promotions

3.0

Work satisfaction

4.0

Company culture

5.0

Work-life balance

posted on 17 Jan 2022

Likes

Work Life Balance Opportunity to work on high scale products.

Skill development - Good
Job security - Excellent
Promotions - Excellent
Company culture - Good
Work-life balance - Excellent

Work Details

Work days: Monday to Friday (Flexible Timings)

Work related travel: This is a desk job.

Software Engineer II in Bangalore / Bengaluru

Software Development Department

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

Category Ratings

4.0

Salary

4.0

Skill development

4.0

Job security

4.0

Promotions

4.0

Work satisfaction

4.0

Company culture

3.0

Work-life balance

posted on 29 Jun 2022

Likes

Perks PERKS PERKS PERKS

Salary - Good
Skill development - Good
Job security - Good
Promotions - Good
Work satisfaction - Good
Company culture - Good

Dislikes

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