Avoid being an SDET if you can
Avoid being an SDET if you can
Microsoft is a great place to learn technical skills and how huge software projects are run. (It is not as organized and deterministic as you may think.)
The benefits are great, especially the medical insurance.
The review system depends on power balance between the different managers. So, it is very easy to get your promotion delayed if you have a weak manager.
Manual Testers (Test Engineer Role) have been eliminated from most parts of the company, so SDETs have to balance writing automation and doing manual-type testing. This causes many SDETs to compromise in one of them to get to the other, which causes bad bugs to slip and low-quality automation code.
The turnover rate in Test is so high that you always have more work than what you can do.
Eliminate the SDET role and make automation a part of SDEs deliverables.
Get back Software Test Engineers to fill the gaps not covered by automation.
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Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
Interviewers keep keying in their inputs. The next interviewer knows what the previous one asked and what needs to be tested. In my case: * The first asked for problem-solving. * The second, design. * The third, bug finding. * The fourth, c
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
Got contact from LinkedIn.
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
Got contact from LinkedIn.
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
I've been through this process with Amazon and Google before, and the phone screening process is pretty much the same. Not too many questions about my resume or experience, but algorithm and data structure questions. I got a response the next day to
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
Redmond, Washington, United StatesSeptember 1, 2012Interviewers keep keying in their inputs. The next interviewer knows what the previous one asked and what needs to be tested. In my case: * The first asked for problem-solving. * The second, design. * The third, bug finding. * The fourth, c
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
United StatesApril 30, 2013Got contact from LinkedIn.
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
Bellevue, Washington, United StatesNovember 1, 2011I've been through this process with Amazon and Google before, and the phone screening process is pretty much the same. Not too many questions about my resume or experience, but algorithm and data structure questions. I got a response the next day to
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
Got contact from LinkedIn.
