Company: Microsoft
Date: 2009-07-26
Overall rating: 4/5
Employment status: current

In general MS is a great place to work, especially if already have a family and you need a stable job.
Pros: One of the best reason for working at Microsoft is that you get to use the latest Microsoft technologies. As a SDET you will have a resonponsibility to build tesing framework, which at some cases you will write more code than your developer peer. Heath benefit is awesome I haven't paid a dime for my health.
Cons: The compensation is not the greatest in the world. If you have a family the health benefit will compensate for it otherwise for sure you will find it that your peer at other company is making more money that you. Sometimes at work we have way too many meetings, which make it hard to get anything done. Some of the more senior testers are just pain not competent.