Company: Microsoft
Date: 2019-01-27
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Resurrection
Pros: Smart people (more at HQ than the field).  Ethics are taken seriously.  People are generally collegial and collaborative (with some exceptions).  The stock has been great if you've been around for a few years and could enjoy the runup in 2017-2018.
Cons: Salaries are just OK, not great.  Comp plans for pre-sales technical staff not competitive with the market, which leads to gamesmanship like giving people who should be on Account Technology Specialist roles  in Account Team Units (ATU) in Solutions Specialist (SSP) roles so they can make more money--that is a problem in my org and leads to dissension among technical specialists in the STU, who don't have the opportunity to be on Solution Specialist comp plans while not being accountable for opportunity ownership.  Local leadership doesn't understand the problem that causes for morale and the sense that ATUs are "more equal than others", to quote Animal Farm.  

Quotas are assigned to accounts instead individuals, so every seller shares a quota with someone else, sometimes many others.  That can lead to internal friction and some free-riding.