Microsoft Employee Reviews for Software Development Engineer in Test

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"Microsoft is a super company and has many interesting products."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Never suggest things to the managers. They get offended by any comments."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"The company location in rainy city Redmond, Washington is not good."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They need to be open minded for suggestions and comments."

What do you like about working at Microsoft?

"I like the good, hard-working, talented people. The service and support are wonderful."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"The job description often asks or requires more than the job need. However, at the interviews, interviewers only ask things related to what their teams specifically do, or what I need to hire for. A lot of things you can learn when you're on the job."

What don't you like about working at Microsoft?

"I don't like writing test cases, and test automation is no longer fitting my interests. I'd like designing, coding, analyzing bugs, and fixing code problems."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"I would suggest simplifying their communications, their doc instructions and internal documents so that people can find help doc quickly (like Google search)."

"Everything depends on your manager."

"I had great contribution but less compensation."

"Overall I enjoyed Microsoft very much and found it unfortunate that my job got outsourced."

"Good company to work with."