No other choice? 6 months max - Anonymous employee SQAsquared Employee Review

1.0
Feb 28, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Coworkers are easy to get along with -Free snacks -Require 0 Exp

Cons

-Low pay (There’s words that some onsite make six-figure. Personally, I doubt it) -Tiny coffee mug -Once you go onsite the pay is still way below industry standard -The turn over rate is ridiculous for both trainee and onsite. They operate like retail where there are mass hiring then there would be a period of drought and people leaving -No more free lunch on Wed (cutting cost) -Inconsistent review (review is when you get a chance for a raise) and promotion -CEO take feedback very personally -No career advancement. You either move around a lot as onsite or stay at training center (if you’re at training center, prepared to be neglect in term of review) -10% learning time is bogus. Impossible to get approved for it -Replace employee with 6-12 months of exp with a new one with 2 months of exp, then get angry when production go down. -Weird “flexible” (not actually flexible) hours. Choose between 6am-3pm, 9am-6pm, and 3pm-12pm. You can’t switch freely between those hours. All business partner are 8am to 5pm. -CEO put his needs above everyone at training center. Literally takes months to order lunch tables (there were 0 lunch table. most people had to eat at their desk). Instead order a new exercise machine and lockers that the CEO wants. -Gym is there so they can put it as benefit in job description -Disconnect and miscommunication between management, onsite, and training center -Management snoop on employee direct chat. Some conversation that criticise the company were printed out and employee confronted. -Clunky software. Make everyone use a bad in-house software to try and lock in business partner from leaving. The software turn a 2 hrs task into a 6 hrs one. The software were so bad, it become a running joke within the company. They are proud to announce that the software generate hundred of test cases at a push of a button. They convincely forgot to mention that 99.9% of those test cases are redundant, gibberish, and useless. -Weird pod system where multiple people work on 1 computer. -The pod system and “flexible” hours are hurting newcomer. They manage to make onboarding worse than before. An onboarding experience that is not part the of company policy is a Hacky Sack session during breaks (and once in a while after work). Arguably, these sessions are more valuable than the official team building events that happen quarterly, at least for people at training center. It was a period where we can talk about other thing beside work. We always invite new people to play. It’s kind of a way to integrate people into the team and get to know the new people. It’s also allow new people to ask questions about the work and company -0 benefit for trainee. Minimum day off, sick day, and health insurance for onsite -If you’re at training center, dont turn in your 2 weeks notice. They would just fire you on the spot. If you’re onsite, they would accept your notice. Not because they respect you as an employee, it’s because they dont want any disruption to their business partner and look bad. -Don’t ever put any of the management as your references. They will destroy your chance of getting a new job regardless of how you perform at the company. A few people learn this the hard way.

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5.0
Sep 23, 2025
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Pros

Alright here’s the truth. Yes this is a good place to learn, no it’s probably not going to benefit 80% of you in today’s job market. Most of these tasks that people get started here with for <5 years are extremely menial and will probably get replaced by AI in the next few years. I’ve been mulling this decision of posting this over for past few weeks but I think explaining this somewhere is the right thing to do: we’re all working on automation on the backend to cut costs and remove the need for sqaas. Hell, even most embedded positions are getting removed in the next couple years so a few of our QA Architects, Principals and a couple POCs can get rewarded for the extra work in their automation by taking over the contracts. It sucks to say but this company has always cared about protecting the individuals who’s been here since the beginning and will do anything to put us first. Even if this means screwing over recent grads or young kids to not have to cut our own salaries. It’s a bit sad to see how oftentimes my colleagues who’s been here for about a decade as well have weeks on end where they do almost nothing related to the tasks from their assigned business partners, but yet profit off of the hard work done by sqaas (of course when I say hard I usually mean easy just a lot of tasks). That part makes me the most guilty

Cons

I’ll give an honest break down the pay for those who are still interested: You start at ~33,000 After a year you’ll be at ~36,000 After two years you’ll be at ~40,000 If you do get embedded you’ll be at ~44,000 From there you’ll probably be stuck at that for a while, I’ve seen people who’s been here for 5 years and barely broke 55,000. However if (very unlikely I don’t see this happening at all) you become Principal, congratulations you’re finally an employee we care about - then you’ll be at ~80,000 Honest truth is only the VPs make high 6 figures. Every year Jeremiah would make presentations about the cost-benefit of sqaas and get raise after raise while at the same time laying people off when things get a bit rocky. Still think they/we care? But in this economy, even if you won’t take the 33,000, there’s always going to be another sucker who would. After all, sqaas is easy menial labor

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4.0
Oct 13, 2025
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Pros

Training is offered, Real experience with different projects and technologies Good Experience for newly grads

Cons

- Low pay - Lack of mentorship from the people ahead of you

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