Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-06-25
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Sales Development Specialist
Pros: -Decent benefits--nice caf at work, free beverages, moving allowance to re-locate, REALLY easy work (too easy, almost a con)
Cons: -Uneducated/inexperienced management. Most were promoted from the vendor team, which didn't require them to have much experience, proof of drive or higher education
-This is a 'start up culture' within an enterprise company, as they like to say. What it means is that they are constantly trying to figure out the next direction, without putting in place a long-term vision
-Disconnect between what Bellevue wanted the center to be versus what it actually is. Bellevue execs hired our team with lots of promises of sales conferences, sales incentives, bonuses, mentors, long-term career paths and more. I have seen NONE of it and, so far, each of those promises has been taken away (our contracts are very vague--be careful!!)
-Microsoft Fargo is a SCARY place--I have never seen so many white people in my life. I tried starting a diversity initiative on campus to celebrate all the cultures that were being ignored, but that same management saw this as "distracting". Satya's initiative is to be "diverse and inclusive" and Microsoft Fargo FAILS