Microsoft Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) I reviews

3.8

98% would recommend to a friend

(717 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

90% approve of CEO

86% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer In Test SDET I employees have rated Microsoft with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 717 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer In Test SDET I professionals have a good working experience there. Microsoft is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer In Test SDET I professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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717 reviews
2.0
Oct 7, 2013
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Pros

Flexible working hours, good benefits, kind of ok pay rate.

Cons

Extremely bad culture, many leads think more about promotions and career rather than project itself, many of test lead don't have technical expertize to understand the technology, write annual reviews based on impression instead of technical expertise, some level of dominant immigrant mentally too. vague commitments, vague performance evaluation, bad work life balance, had seen working e-mails from one of my leads at midnight and at 6:30 am, dev leads tend to influence test leads, some leads don't care if employee has relevant technical expertise for the project or not, they just assign it expecting the employee to learn by himself, if he fails it is reflected in the review, and so on ...

5.0
Sep 30, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Lots of learning opportunities. Doing project that is exciting and make significant impact to the world

Cons

stack ranking system is negatively impacting the employee morale. Seen too many best people of the company left or push away because of stack ranking

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