What are the advantages of working as a tester for a product based company as opposed to a service based company?

Hi All,

What are the advantages of working as a tester for a product based company as opposed to a service
based company?

Thanks in advance..

Regards,
Anil

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Permalink Reply by dharmendra on March 30, 2010 at 12:34pm

Better is one which understands the value of testing and test engineers.
a company/management is willing to spend money for getting quality and not for merely formality.
A company which pays you better is a better company to work
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Permalink Reply by dharmendra on March 30, 2010 at 12:54pm

Join before knowing everything

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Permalink Reply by Somanathan on March 30, 2010 at 1:22pm

Dear all,

According to me... Product based one s better than Service.
Since, In Service based one, the work s being like repeated... for example inventory(add,delete,update,view....)
In Product based...implementing new concept/ideas..v can get gud exposure on our field.

correct me if i m wrong...

Regards,
Somanathan R.

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Permalink Reply by Ulhas Deshmukh on March 30, 2010 at 2:07pm

No even in product based you may get repeated work like you may get no. of build of product to test.
and even you may get bored to test same product for month/year

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Permalink Reply by vishnu chaudary on March 31, 2010 at 10:16am

Hi! I agree with Ulhas. Product based may have enhancements once in a while than service based. But one cannot escape repetetive work in both cases. The bottom line is monotony exists in all fields except in creative field.. :)

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Permalink Reply by Karunesh Verma on March 31, 2010 at 6:12am

Exactly Som!!!!!

My situation is ditto as u explained!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Priya Singh on March 30, 2010 at 2:46pm

In a pdt based company u can get
1) Better salary
2) Flexible working hours
3) Some times there is no dress code
4) Indepth knowledge in that product
5) Small team and company size, so an ease to prove urself.

Disadvantage
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1) Can have boring environment with little or no entertainment activities.
2) Wont get exposure to multiple domains. Can have to keep on working for years on the same pdt.
3) Slower pace in growing in terms of designation

In a service based company,
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1) Environment can be more lively .
2) Can get more domain knowledge as may get chance to work on multiple domains and projects.
3) Short term projects. So wont get bored with same project.

Disadvantage
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1) Strict and long working hours. In weekend also more oftenly u may be required to work.
2) Lesser salary in comparison to pdt based company.

These are points what I feel. Rest depends on the company market value, goodwill, name and type of work or roles and responsibilities u r needed to be involved into. So it depends on u what u decide are ur priorities...!! The ball is in your court...! :)

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Permalink Reply by vamshi on March 30, 2010 at 4:08pm

Most of Priya comments are correct..Basically I am also working in a Product based company from 5 years.

Except Two:

Flexible working hours...
To be frank the timings will be strict. Because when u come to service based company you will be having TimeLines to complete it. so u can plan accordingly but when coming to product based comapanies..as the company captures the market the sooner the "Product is released" and "it should be Max.free of Bugs". So u can guess now. You have to work like anything to meet the TWO criterias.

Coming to salary
it depends on the Company policies.

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Permalink Reply by Sentha Sureswar on April 15, 2010 at 7:45pm

Exactly Vamshi, Me also working in PBC.

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Permalink Reply by QA on March 30, 2010 at 3:27pm

I am agree with Priya, but the major disadvantage of Product base company is you would be fired if your product is not generating the revenue. ;)

Thanks,
Pawan

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Permalink Reply by Sufala Pendurkar on March 30, 2010 at 3:36pm

In Product Testing tester will have more scope for his/her creativity Imagination and usability issues. Here he/she can spend more time on making the application more user friendly. Lot of time will there to do a through testing and also he/she can execute all the scenarios what he wants to execute.

In Application testing the tester has to stick to the requirements given by the client... less scope for any changes/suggestions/enhancements given by tester.