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Great career opportunity at a stable company

Lead Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
Current Employee
Has worked at Microsoft for less than 1 year
July 15, 2008
Redmond, Washington
4.0
No CEO Opinion
Pros

A great opportunity to grow your career. There are a vast number of different teams that operate on different principles and have different goals and technologies. You can almost always find a career path that interests you.

The ability to work with some of the brightest people out there is something that's often overlooked and taken for granted while you are at Microsoft. Imagine any technical issue you run into; you have access to unlimited technical people, including those that designed the feature. This is invaluable to those geeks like us.

Cons

The size of the company has grown to a point where there is too much bureaucracy. Decision-making is slower than in a startup. There are many hoops you have to jump through sometimes to get everyone to buy off, which means you spend more time on process rather than core engineering.

Advice to Management

Flatten the org!

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