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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The interview process involved one phone screen followed by four back-to-back onsite rounds. As this was a new grad role, there was no system design; all interviews were coding and behavioral. I received an offer quite quickly.
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
Four rounds of 45-minute whiteboard drills to showcase coding skills. There is very little focus on the behavioral aspect.
Software Development Engineer I
The interview process was surprisingly easy and clean. It began with an on-campus filtering interview, followed by a day of on-site interviews in Seattle, all of which occurred within a week. The results were communicated back in less than 48 hours
Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United StatesOctober 1, 2021The interview process involved one phone screen followed by four back-to-back onsite rounds. As this was a new grad role, there was no system design; all interviews were coding and behavioral. I received an offer quite quickly.
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET)
Redmond, Washington, United StatesJanuary 11, 2014Four rounds of 45-minute whiteboard drills to showcase coding skills. There is very little focus on the behavioral aspect.
Software Development Engineer I
Redmond, Washington, United StatesMarch 1, 2013The interview process was surprisingly easy and clean. It began with an on-campus filtering interview, followed by a day of on-site interviews in Seattle, all of which occurred within a week. The results were communicated back in less than 48 hours
