Avoid being SDET if you can - werkgeversreview Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II bij Microsoft

4,0
13 jan 2010
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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

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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.

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5,0
7 jun 2026
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Interesting and varied work. Seasonality to the job allows for rest period

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Less stability than there used to be makes people afraid to take risks

4,0
28 jan 2013
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1. If you love tech, this is a great place. No doubt you'll talk tech (mostly the MSFT stack) from enterprise to consumer - from PCs to phones to Xboxes - from datacenter to desktop. 2. What were GREAT benefits are now VERY GOOD (took a small step down) but still probably better than you'll find at 99% of large corporations. If you've got family - the value of the benefits is even higher. 401k match is nice. 3. Even with it's struggles MSFT is still a cash printing machine. This means if you can keep your nose clean and do reasonable work, you can have a stable job, pay your bills, feed your family, and not worry (too much) about layoffs. The stock you own likely won't tank, but probably won't go up much either. You'll get a bonus each year and some stock. It's a decent life if you aren't looking to light the world on fire.

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Brand on Your Resume: After many years of losing market share and struggling to be at the front end of innovation and the fact that there's 90,000 employees, don't think MSFT is necessarily going to be attractive on your resume to more agile and smaller companies. Managing Your Career: Make you say this out loud so it registers - 90,000 employees work there. Double that for vendors. It is VERY hard to "stand out" and move up in the company. Don't expect your manager to be much of an advocate or enabler to help you meet your career goals - they are basically trying to survive the stack rank every year too. Not familiar with the stack rank? Check out the 2012 Vanity Fair article called "Microsoft's Lost Decade".

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