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Do not ever join Google as a Software Engineer in Test

Software Engineer In Test
Current Employee
Has worked at Google for less than 1 year
October 23, 2009
Mountain View, California
2.0
Approves of CEO
Pros

You will interact with one of the most brilliant computer science workers.

Free food, free beer, shuttles, opportunity to shake hands with Obama, and all the glitz.

Sunny state, beautiful campus. I even do my laundry there some days.

Cons

You will face software engineering-like interviews. They will test your ability to code and be excellent at algorithms. You will be given an utterly shitty job.

You will regret joining the company unless you are a fresh graduate student who likes to be pampered.

Pay is shitty as well, except for a few lucky testers who get placed in "high profile" or "high demand" projects.

You will feel like a slave.

There is no getting out of it easily.

I have a degree from one of the top schools, and I am already regretting joining Google.

Advice to Management

Provide more opportunities to test engineers and engineers in test.

They have ambitions too.

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