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Great Benefits, Horrible Balance

Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
Former Employee
Worked at Expedia Group for less than 1 year
November 22, 2016
San Francisco, California
3.0
Approves of CEO
Pros

Good benefits. Sometimes interesting tasks. Everything depends on the manager you have.

Cons

Work/life balance is horrible.

Depending on the team you're assigned to, you may or may not have time for a personal life.

Also, if your manager is bad enough, you will be loaded with manual testing, documentation, and babysitting outsourced teams instead of writing automation scripts, building/improving/extending test frameworks, etc.

I got into the team under a not-great manager, so after working there for 2 years, my skills dropped hard, especially coding. I had to do coding in my free time at home to not forget it entirely, lol.

SDETs in other teams were fine with interesting coding-related work.

Advice to Management

Get things real. If you need more resources, just hire more people instead of trying to force people to work 24/7.

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