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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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      4.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.3

      Compensation and benefits

      4.2

      Culture & values

      4.1

      Work/Life balance

      4.0

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      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 Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      685 reviews
      4.0
      Jun 11, 2008

      Great place to work if your twenty-something and single with no life

      Software development engineer in test (sdet)
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      Pros

      Being on the inside of one of the most successful software companies ever.

      Cons

      As an american engineer with 20 years experience, and a familiy with 3 kids, I simply could not compete with all the young talent imported from other countries, making half my salary and working 80hrs a week. At my level, I was expected to put in more hours, and consistently got bad reviews NOT because of anything I did, but by comparison to my peers. Unsustainable.

      5.0
      May 25, 2008

      A great place to end up working, after you've had your fill of startups

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

      Pros

      Reasonable work hours ("crunch" weeks are far and few between), excellent benefits (all-inclusive - no copayments even required), regional pay adjustments for cost-of-living differences (Bay Area pay was 15% higher than "standard" salaries for comparable job levels when I first joined). I've also had very good experiences with being rewarded for doing good work, in the form of stock awards, cash bonuses, and time off. Products being developed are very diverse, so there's a great opportunity to move between different technologies, markets, and even project scales (hundred-man projects down to teams of just a handful of people). The company is very stable (having been around a while).

      Cons

      Big company mentality - it often feels like there isn't much innovation going on, and sometimes it seems like the cards are stacked against trying to do something too new or creative. It's also a bit frustrating at times to be under the restraints of all of the antitrust suits which have been going on - cross product integration is very tightly examined to ensure there will be no legal ramnifications, down to one case where a partner team couldn't explain the format of data they were consuming to our team, because doing so would require them to document/explain it to the general public.

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