Good pay, but they get a lot for their money
Good pay, but they get a lot for their money
Excellent benefits and pay. Get to work with very smart people. Get to work on projects that affect millions of people. Always get to work with new technologies, or at the very least try all the new stuff before the public. Flexible hours.
Very political. Reviews are graded on a strict curve, so even if the whole team rocks, someone has to be on the bottom.
If working on a service, you must be on call 24/7 for 2-week periods throughout the year. You feel like, even when you're at home, the job never ends.
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Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
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Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
A full-day process, broken into multiple individual one-on-one interviews. These interviews can include time at the blackboard, writing snippets of code or scripting. Not for the faint of heart or the unprepared.
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
Applied through a university recruiter and got to do an on-campus interview. The question was very easy (add an item to a sorted linked list), and I got to fly to Sydney for the next round. The second round consisted of four individual interviews wit
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNovember 23, 2025HackerRank test and 3 rounds of coding, plus an experience-based interview. The position was for QA, who should have storage and networking knowledge. So, basic questions on storage and networking were asked.
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Redmond, Washington, United StatesFebruary 1, 2020A full-day process, broken into multiple individual one-on-one interviews. These interviews can include time at the blackboard, writing snippets of code or scripting. Not for the faint of heart or the unprepared.
Software Development Engineer In Test (SDET) II
Sydney, AustraliaMarch 1, 2015Applied through a university recruiter and got to do an on-campus interview. The question was very easy (add an item to a sorted linked list), and I got to fly to Sydney for the next round. The second round consisted of four individual interviews wit
