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
1.0
Jul 29, 2018

Last Resort

Recommend
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Pros

- A great place to pad you resume with relevant QA experience - Coworkers make working here bearable - Networking. A positive side-effect of many people moving on to better opportunities means that old colleagues often reach out to see if you need a job making 2x-3x more elsewhere - Pod system. Sit back and relax as someone else does the work - Snacks

Cons

- Low pay. As someone had mentioned before, you will be close to living paycheck to paycheck - Strays away from tools used in the industry, while still preaching "best practice" - In-house QA tool is a pain to use and inefficient. I'm sure the CEO is aware of it but demands us to use it, even when the client refuses to use it - Your "training" is 30 min a day of watching youtube videos - Pod system. Sit back and reflect on what else you can be doing with your life. They took the idea of pair-programming and made it worse. - Promotion is a joke. They do mass hirings and fire the people who are under-performing or people who are not "likable" - Work months without benefits and don't get paid holidays A lot of the decisions they are making are made in vain to appeal clients while negatively affecting the efficiency and morale of the employees.

1.0
Apr 10, 2018

Wish I could give Negative

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Snack and coworkers are cool but CEO thinks that is enough

Cons

The manager has short temper(everyone there knows), very strict rules, no parking in their parking lot, very bad training, does mass hirings keeps who he likes, very high turn over, bad pay.

1.0
Mar 3, 2018

Stepping Point

Recommend
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Pros

I am a self taught programmer who saw QA as a stepping point to becoming a real engineer. When I interviewed with SQASquared, I was able to showcase my ability to code, so they put me a on a technical project. In that project, they let me mess around with an automation framework in JAVA and Selenium. The business partner I was on was pretty chill. They would only request for manual testing help twice a week on average. So in my down time, I would learn the architecture of the automation framework, read blogs and watch videos about it. I got to a point where I was confident on building it from scratch so I left after 5 months and doubled my Salary as a QA Engineer for another startup. I now make at least 100K as a Software Engineer who works on Automation frameworks and Jenkins, and it has not been 2 years since I left. I say this because there is a mindset going on here that being an engineer from an analyst takes several years to achieve. Even as a QA professional who executes manual tests, if you learn a few months here you can get paid more somewhere else. Thank you SQASquared, continue creating opportunity.

Cons

No benefits. I get that this is a consulting company and you have to make money by taking some percentage (could be big could be small, who knows). but come on even tiny startups now give stock options, flexible work schedule, unlimited sick days and most importantly Health benefits from day you start. A lot of the QA Analysts here I've talked to have this mentality of "I get paid low but at least I'm secured because I still have a job after a contract". Dude there's such thing as a full time position.

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