Microsoft Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) reviews

3.8

98% would recommend to a friend

(686 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

90% approve of CEO

86% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer In Test SDET employees have rated Microsoft with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 686 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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686 reviews
4.0
Jan 13, 2010
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Pros

Microsoft is a great place to learn technical skills and how huge software project are run (it is not as organized and deterministic as you may think) The Benefits are great specially medical insurance

Cons

The review system depends on power balance between the different managers. So it is very easy to get your promotion delayed if you have weak manager. Manual Testers (Test Engineer Role) has been eliminated from most parts of the company so SDETs have to balance writing automation and doing manual type testing. This cause many SDETs to compromise in one of them to get to the other which cause bad bugs to slip and low quality automation code. The turn over rate in Test is so high so you always has more work than what you can do.

3.0
Jan 5, 2010
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Pros

This is one of the best places to work in the SW industry, Talented and awesome coworkers. you get to learn so much from peers

Cons

the startup kind of feel is missing. Management is more middle aged and hence innovation and new ideas take back seat to tried and tested methods

4.0
Jan 3, 2010
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Pros

Learn MS tools Mentor flexibile caree path Pay is good flexible work time indepedent office lots of people free drinks

Cons

i hope the pay can be higher or even better than google work time is quite long can not learn non-ms tools

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