Microsoft Would Do Better If It Invested in Test
Microsoft Would Do Better If It Invested in Test
Microsoft makes some of the most widely shipped software in the world. If you would love to see your work pushed to the entire world, Microsoft is the place to go.
Because Microsoft pushes software to the entire world, backwards compatibility can be incredibly difficult.
In addition, the skill, ingenuity, and time investment required to ensure software is well-tested means that SDETs are often under huge amounts of pressure without the proper level of reward, given the difficulty of their job.
Invest in test and infrastructure and push basic unit testing into the workflow for developers. Bake this into the tools being shipped to customers, as it is a place where the industry is lacking and has been lacking for years.
VSTS is beginning to push this direction, but it could go much further. Standardize installation technologies and ensure that teams across Microsoft (and in the rest of the world) have an easy way to share their products so compat testing is simple and easy.
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesNovember 20, 2025It was one round, two interviews: one technical and one behavioral. It took about a month to get the interview request and a week to hear back. The behavioral round also had some minimal technical questions.
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