Company: Microsoft
Date: 2017-03-20
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Sales
Pros: Good benefits, good product strategy in Cloud and future direction.  If you're content to make so-so money in Sales, and like big company internal complexity, this is a good place
Cons: No real sales commission plan.  It is an annual bonus plan that is complex, very hard to understand, has both a soft and hard cap, and has a degree of subjectivity that can be risky depending on your management.  Also, inflexible.  You may be "asked" to cover something that you will wind up spending lots of time on but not get paid for.  Marketing for enterprise business solutions is very weak, mostly focused on collateral with corporate banalities that have little value.  Licensing very complex and leads to much time spent on customer satisfaction issues. 
Microsoft does not appear to want highly agressive type "A" salespeople, and maybe they just don't need them.  Hence, the comp plan.

 But, as I said, if you are OK with OK money and the caps, etc, go for Microsoft.