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      Microsoft Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) reviews

      3.8

      98% would recommend to a friend

      (685 total reviews)
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      Satya Nadella

      90% approve of CEO

      86% positive business outlook

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      Software Development Engineer In Test SDET employees have rated Microsoft with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 685 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer In Test SDET 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 professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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      685 reviews
      3.0
      Sep 18, 2012

      Giant Company with Giant Mess

      Software development engineer in test (sdet) ii
      Recommend
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      Pros

      1. Some free drinks. 2. Good offices

      Cons

      1. Bad leadship. Reviewing system is so aweful that a lot of lower level ICs do not get credits. 2. Competitive working instead of collaborative working environments. 3. Politics: During reorganization, a lot of leads move with their managers and do not do much work at all. Dev manager get paid a lot with less work.

      2.0
      Sep 17, 2012

      Get to know your team manager before joining a team

      Software development engineer in test (sdet) ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      MSFT has smart people. These are tech fellows and researchers. Follow their ideas and inventions. MSFT has challenging problems awaiting smart people's solutions. Your product may affect millions of people's daily life.

      Cons

      MSFT has stupid people. These are resource managers and project managers. MSFT has stupid product policies. These are supressions of creative ideas and inventions that may compete with Windows, Office or IE. MSFT has stupid people policies. These are constrained mobility, annual reviews and caliberation -a total joke.

      4.0
      Sep 16, 2012

      People are smart

      Software development engineer in test (sdet) ii
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Decisions making is typically very rationalized -- this could be a pro or con depending your view. If you like IPhone, probalby you won't like this company since it focus on more 'real' value. You will learn how to 'collaborate' -- collaboration is one of most important part of work at Microsoft. In my experience most people are 'collaborative' but it could be super challenging when cross team boundary as there is limited incentive for a team to put other's priority higher than itself.

      Cons

      You have to cope with review model which some ratio of employees will be marked as 'underperformed' (the model changes over time, but there always will be some of us get into this category) which is bloody and choosing a good boss is more than important.

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