Company: Microsoft
Date: 2018-06-09
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

Software Engineer - SQL engineering
Pros: Opportunity to work on an array of products both on premise and cloud. The technology stack use for development varies according to team. I have personally worked on networking optimization for Sql Server on Linux  with a lot of low level C/C++ codebase, telemetry in Postgres and MySql cloud services using C# and multi-az support for Azure Databases (C#). There are very few places where you find this kind of breadth. There are engineering teams working on cloud-scale deployments, database query optimization, security to name a few.
Cons: Very hierarchical, huge teams and hard to create impact.