Company: Microsoft
Date: 2021-05-24
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

DO NOT BECOME A CSAM
Pros: - you work at Microsoft and benefit from the global perks of it being one of the top tech companies.
Cons: - your base pay is minimum 20k lower than any other role at Microsoft (yes, we compared salaries across a pool of 137 new hires, and don't even get started on the difference between this role and engineering)
- you get 3k starting stock as opposed to engineering's 75k (ok, I compared it, plus their base salary is 50k higher by default)
- your career opportunities, network, and benefits pale in comparison to working in engineering
- your role is just as important in generating millions of dollars of revenue as sales people and other members of your teams as your share metrics, so despite you being paid 20k less base (and less commission) you shoulder literally as much responsibility as them.