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      3.8

      98% would recommend to a friend

      (721 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      90% approve of CEO

      86% positive business outlook

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      4.4

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      4.3

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      4.1

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      4.0

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      3.5

      Senior management

      Software Development Engineer In Test SDET II employees have rated Microsoft with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 721 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer In Test SDET II 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 II professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      721 reviews
      3.0
      Jun 18, 2011

      You drive your own career.

      Software development engineer in test (sdet)
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      Pros

      You must find opportunities to learn from others and you have the most impact to drive your own career. Nothing comes to you automatically. This is a place where people who take initiative can thrive. People around you are very smart and ambitious. Employees can learn a lot from the right mentor.

      Cons

      Your experience, performance, and opportunities are heavily determined by your direct manager's support, and indirectly, your skip-level manager. Regardless of whether you do good work or bad, the process is highly political. If you have a bad relationship with your manager, even if it isn't "your fault", you're set up for failure. It is, unfortunately, a pre-requisite that you manage this relationship first before your actual work performance, because little else matters if your manager does not go up to bat for you. For me, I was lucky to have supportive direct managers. For many of my peers, however, I've seen very poor managers and there is little the system can do to protect employees from bad managers. Crap shoot at times.

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