SQAsquared reviews

2.4

41% would recommend to a friend

(101 total reviews)

George Nunez

26% approve of CEO

22% positive business outlook

SQAsquared has an employee rating of 2.4 out of 5 stars, based on 101 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The SQAsquared employee rating is 38% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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101 reviews
4.0
Mar 2, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I just want to start off by saying that I have been at the company from March 2019 to late January 2021 (before and after pandemic) and so this is somewhat of a late review but I still wanted to write one for the longest time. - Coworkers: The guys that work there are till this day really good friends of mine and although I wasn't the most extroverted I bonded with most if not all of them, they are some of the funniest guys I've met. And getting lunch together or playing billiards/nintendo switch (smash ultimate) was always the highlight of my day. Also this was the main reason why I stayed for as long as I did. - Snacks/Break lounge: I was actually the snack guy for a bit when we were in office and so it was cool choosing/budgeting the snacks to the last cent. Free snacks is always a plus. - Amount of resources to learn/grow: I think this part is heavily underlooked here. This company offers so much value its ridiculous in my opinion, to see some of the reviews here. You can legit start with 0 knowledge of QA or programming and learn ON THE JOB and get paid for it. From my experience, although I have a CS background, I had little to no QA experience but I learned both Front-end and Back-end testing (manual and automation - Java/Python). You get exposed to industry standard tools such as Selenium, Appium (if your project is mobile), TestRails, Jira, Postman/Swagger API, Saucelabs etc as well as various frameworks/concepts such as Gherkin/Cucumber, Page object models, locators (Xpaths & CSS selectors) etc. Most if not all of these are documented on their wiki, although some of it might be hidden in the Business partner pages. - VPs: I feel like these guys do not get enough credit here in the reviews. They have all been somewhat of a mentor for me and have helped me a countless number of times. If you ever need help with anything technical and your peers/google doesn't help, don't feel intimidated to ask them for guidance.

Cons

- Biggest one is obviously salary. It's true the pay is extremely low compared to Industry standard but are you really going to complain about that when you suck at coding and have 0 QA experience? If you applied to this job, that means you are most likely trying to get your foot out of the door and build experience. You learn so much here IF you take advantage of their resources and in my opinion that is much more valuable than pay because this is what leads you to landing higher paying jobs. I left SQA to work at Blizzard Entertainment but then moved on to another job as an SDET II and am now making 110k. Take advantage of their resources! - Constantly changing projects: Not sure if this is a con but it could be for some people because you have to learn new domain knowledge and adjust in a somewhat fast paced environment. However, this does expose you to new tools and does give you more experience with what it's like in working with different teams. Whether it is your pods or if you're onsite, a new dev team, you learn a lot about the SDLC and also how you approach situations with "bad" teammates which will help you in interviews for future jobs. - Late reviews/Pay raises: All of my reviews got delayed and so that was unfortunate at the time but I know some guys waited several months longer than me so I shouldn't complain. As for pay increase, although this can be a touchy subject, I was pretty open about it. My first jump was from 33k to 38k and then to 50k which was much higher than my peers but was still laughable. - Acknowledgement/Bonuses: The idea of rewarding a good employee is great; however, SQA does this pretty poorly. And I don't want to sound cocky but I did receive the SQA Technical Achievement award but whenever they gave a bonus it's literally just an extra day's worth of pay or a gift card. I actually only received this once but I felt I excelled at my job. I also had gone out of my way very frequently to help other pods with their automation; however, it did feel like it went unnoticed most of the time. - PDCI: For the guys that are new and have no idea what this is, it is essentially their in house tool for a lot of things such as the requests/tickets you will create and work on as well as to build test cases that can be synced to your automation. I know they were building PDCI 2.0 at the time that I left and so I really hope they fixed all of the inconveniences and bugs of its predecessor. - George: To be honest, I liked George to an extent. I get it, he can micromanage and be rude at times but I respected him. He can be intimidating and you'll know if he's around when the atmosphere shifts. He also does show favoritism and can be uptight at times.

2.0
Feb 13, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Your coworkers are great people. Friendly and Collaborative. It's a majority minority office environment and that is just relieving for a tech company. When the office works like it's supposed to, you get access to tech that will advance your knowledge in key areas.

Cons

For the level of work being done, and for the expectations of employers, the pay isn't good. If the CEO doesn't like you, the quality of work you do doesn't really matter. People leave nearly every week. The turnover rate is hilariously bad. They claim to be plotting to train up employees but the main person responsible for what little training people received has also left the company. All that leaves is a seriously outdated Wiki that doesn't really contain day to day practices or much relevant information. You may receive knowledge relating to projects from Onsite QA people, or BA people, but that is rare. Every standard or practice they claim to adhere to is blown up at the whim of the CEO. I'd been re-assigned multiple times with little to no explanation why, and then this was likely held against me or somehow reflected poorly on me as an employee. This was the case for other employees as well. When I asked for clarification I was given none. I had no work assignments for a day so I moved to the other team I was apart of, to catch up on projects. I was basically reprimanded by the CEO for literally following the process that I'd been told to follow, while I was working on two projects. Mind you I was working on two projects until the CEO told me to stop doing ANY work at all for one group, no wind down, no communication just stop work. Then my second project was restarted and I had no idea what was going on because I wasn't allowed to follow up or keep contact with the team I'd worked with Because the CEO told me not to! I'd just started working for SQA after taking care of family while coming off of disability. I received a message from a caretaker that was an emergency. When I tried to walk away to make a call (according to office rules) I received a lecture from the CEO about being professional. At that point I was told verbatim: "Family is important, but so is business" I actually considered quitting at that point because that was a ridiculous thing to be told by anyone ever about business. But it wasn't the last egregious thing I was told, so at least now I can warn other people. Unless you drink the kool-aid the company(CEO) will assume you don't care. They claim to be training people to work in professional environments, but really, you are doing the QA work without the QA pay, and most of the people are more than qualified to work in the offices. But they are young and exploitable. Everyone is supposed to receive a 3 month review and potentially get a raise. They find reasons to push this back and it's incredible some of the things being told to employees they should retain and train up to be a part of a successful company: - One of their best employees, who was hard-working, punctual, friendly and helpful was told that he had "poor verbal communication" This was someone who explained to the company that he was high functioning Autistic. He has since moved onto better things. But that is verging on discrimination. It's likely more negligence than malice. But that is no real excuse. I myself was dealing with an Obstructive Sleep Apnea diagnosis, but wasn't given enough time or understanding to deal with that issue. But if you don't have any physical ailments you'll be fine. To sum up, this office is not really a great place to end up. If you are already working there and just looking up reviews, go ahead and start looking for places that are hiring and start applying. If you are looking this place up pending an interview... rethink that idea. read more reviews. Folks giving bad reviews aren't so much disgruntled as really aware of how poorly an office can be run. Imagine if you have a car, that you paid very little for, and you have to pay more and more just to keep it running. At some point it's more cost effective to cut your losses and ditch the car. SQAsquared is the car. Short Run = Not a bad choice potentially Long Run = Will cost you too much

1.0
Jan 13, 2019

Can be fun but thats about it

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

All kinds of people here, if you like being in an open office crowded with lots of people, people constantly talking. Some good coworkers who are smart, honest, hardworking. Some that are chill and fun. Snacks, pool, pingpong. Pay is good if you just have a high school diploma or went to code boot camp or your alternative is a min wage job.

Cons

Some really lazy coworkers. Some stupid that can't figure anything out on there own and expect to get trained by other people on everything. Some dishonest, unethical folks. Kids that act like kids, who never had a serious job before. There are different work schedules, so folks have different lunches and breaks. Makes it less crowded but noisier and distracting from the people playing pool or pingpong or whatevers inside. Pay is very low if you have a college degree or any serious work experience. Also unfair since you get paid the same as folks who don't have college degrees or work experience. Its 2019, even Disneyland and Amazon and some city jobs are paying $15 an hour now. Thats more then what we start with here $31k is $14.90 an hour since we dont get paid holidays.

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