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      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
      4.0
      Mar 21, 2014

      Good place to work, but they demand a lot

      Software development engineer in test (sdet)
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Lots of interesting projects - you can work in just about any technology field Lots of interesting people - you work with people smarter than you

      Cons

      Work-Life balance can easily get out of whack if you don't actively manage expectations Performance evaluation process was grossly bizarre - testers were rated with/against devs & PMs, not just with/against other testers

      3.0
      Mar 20, 2014

      Has it's pros and cons

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

      Pros

      + Diverse range of products, technologies and skills. Very good place to have a broad range of skills. + Reasonable work/life balance. Though, it might vary team to team. + You will get to work with very smart people. + Good benefits - Pay; Paternity/Maternity leaves; 401k match; ESPP; Stock; good # of days of vacation; dental benefits are reasonable; health benefits are ok I guess, but the way they are rolling out the changes is horrible. + Good social and environmental consciousness.

      Cons

      1. HR policies always seem to favor managers over employees. See details below. 2. Mobility is limited as managers have to be notified before interviewing with other teams. 3. Even after the latest round of review changes, employees don't get transparent information about their performance and promotions. Managers get to distribute bonuses, and increases based on unknown processes. Promotions were always a mystery. 4. Managers have a tight grip over projects/assignments an employee gets. Employees don't have much freedom to openly work on projects that they like. 5. No team spirit or culture. I have seen ideas get stolen/copied and the originators never credited multiple times. 6. New health benefits changes are a disaster. Not only are we out 1000s of dollars every year, the paper work takes up few hours every month. 7. Senior management has no clue what they are up to. Ballmer was joke when it came to decision making / strategy. Yes. We have a new CEO. Let's see how he shakes things up. 8. Crony culture in senior management is painfully obvious. See what happened to Sinofsky and his lieutenants. 10. Career progress depends how well you are liked by your manager and skip level manager. 11. Very weak product management culture. Unused/incomplete features, multiple UIs, hard to use features, ....

      1.0
      Mar 18, 2014

      Lot of politics, re-org and very little innovation

      Senior software development engineer in test (sdet)
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Good benefits overall - There are still lot of smart people around - Freedom to move within the company every two years

      Cons

      - Politics and more politics, decisions are made based on how good you build your relationship with upper management rather than how smart you are - Work itself will not get recognized - Re-org, I have never seen a company having a massive re-org every year, vision keeps changing, goals are reset. It is very bad overall for the product - Agile product development is missing - Still using old and stale technology for product development like for source control, bug management.

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