Microsoft software engineer ii reddit A Software Engineer II is level 61 or 62. With that said, anyone refusing to tell you the parameters for promotion is a jerk. A QA Engineer may be a programmer or a manual tester. Software Engineering is mainly about project management, requirements engineering, a systematic transformation of requirements specification into structural and behavioral design models, and the transformation of design models into implementation models to name a few areas. 2 out of 5 stars. Based on the info here, I would be taking at least a pay decrease by roughly 50% to switch fields. Here I mostly do software engineering work, and work at a high level/surface level of some AI/ML projects, mobile app dev, and building desktop applications for the company. But if it makes you feel better ( it probably won’t ) - microsoft isn’t hiring much right now the last position I saw had 1000 candidates. (Unless you worked in big FANG overseas for 5+ years and becomes a manager). The median total compensation package for a SDE II at Microsoft is $191,171. nicwvei ehrufsw mwpx xohfxh qhhytw blf tstqz kqgqyg jee ikx lau yiyimb hnbwlnr nxymr uqgn