Microsoft Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II reviews

3.8

98% would recommend to a friend

(722 total reviews)
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Satya Nadella

90% approve of CEO

86% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer In Test SDET II employees have rated Microsoft with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 722 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 Tecnologías de la información industry (3.9 stars).

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722 reviews
1.0
Sep 18, 2008
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Pros

The people are extremely smart, motivated and fun to work with.

Cons

The company is not truly invested in growing employees to be what they want. Rather, they want to grow us to be more efficient where we currently are. For example, there is a long dry gulch between the the SDET and SDE roles. Even though some people have made the transition successfully, there is active discouragement by test leadership when attempting to make this transition. The company is lost trying to make money and has become scared to do anything innovative. The coolest products are handcuffed to profitability expectations before the idea is even baked, causing the best ideas to never bubble to the top. Since there is such a high technical bar, incompetence moves into leaderships to survive, which leads to the laziest workers in the middle. The review process is a joke, can you say bell curve?

3.0
Sep 15, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

This is a place where you can literally find a huge range of products to work on - devices, enterprise software, web services, automotive and of course Windows/Office. Lots of smart people who are very passionate and motivated - high energy. Great place to learn. Benefits are great, especially the health benefits.

Cons

The company is now very big. If you're at a junior level, good chance you'll drown in the crowd - else the competition will be intense. Managers have a lot of power over their directs. If your manager likes you - good things happen to you. If not, bad things happen to you.

4.0
Sep 14, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

Smart people around you; good reputation; you see the impact of your work outside the work (products); your friends will praise you; The best benefits package I have ever seen (there are some problems with the way the dental plan is handled by the local dentists, see below).

Cons

stress at a regular basis; pressure; competition can lead to some sort of mixed feelings about your peers; One big thing: dentists in the Seattle area will do everything they can to take all the money from the insurance company. At Microsoft, they give you a limit of $1500 per year for dental treatment. However, if you need, for instance, a canal for a tooth, dentists here will charge you...well, guess what? 1500 dollars! That means, for a simple canal, they will eat up all insurance money at your first visit, then if you need to do something else (say a crown for that canal?), you have to unpocket it yourself, and it's a rip off. So, the dentists here are literally thieves! Dental insurance should be unlimited, just like the medical insurance.

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