Skype Software Development Engineer In Test, II reviews

You can survive here quite long without too much effort if you want, too much time and effort is spent on bureaucracy and politics. Too big emphasis in test on numbers and metrics - trying to compare incomparable things, or thing where comparing simple numbers does not make much sense.

- Politics, politics, politics. Projects come and go, and you'll rarely get too attached to a specific project - Different parts of management seem to have different views on how we should achieve our vision - "Skype" management and "Microsoft" management often have very different opinions. Unfortunately, their battlefield are the hard-working employees - (Very) Hard life if you're unlucky enough to still have to work with old (legacy) components which are cryptic, unstable and very hard to grasp for newcomers. Same if you're working on the parts which need "backwards compatibility", like features depending on Peer-to-peer or old proprietary protocols - Catastrophic tentative to mix up Agile development with our slow product evolution. Meetings and Agile processes are a massive productivity killer