Microsoft Software Design Engineer In Test reviews

*Microsoft can change your job title/function and rip your career out from under you whenever they feel like it (they completely did away with Software Engineer in Test which I have been for nearly a decade) *Management does not provide good advice on how to advance your career in the company, you have to figure it out on your own *The automation and code repository systems used by many parts of Microsoft are really out of date and cause significant delays in work *After getting rid of the test role, Microsoft in-development software is extremely buggy, and you are expected to use it during your everyday work to find bugs, and they keep begging you to install it on your home systems. Not paid enough to put my data and personal systems at risk.

Not as much room for promotion or growth (at least on the team I was on). People were very competitive, but the vibe was that management expected people to work with both ends of the candle burning as the norm. While there are many product areas, my impression is that exploring other teams and trying to transfer to another is strongly discouraged. Transfering to a different division is even more of a challenge. Not much support by management to explore areas of interest in terms of new tools or technologies. This might have been a culture trait of my team. Lots of redundant menial work that should be automated, but no bandwidth given to work on tools for these. Also a lot of the existing tools were slow or error prone and needed to be improved or redone, but again no bandwidth given for these. Not great at onboarding new employees in my team (I am not referring to the general NEO done by HR). Lack of training materials and outreach to integrate new FTEs.