Company: Microsoft
Date: 2017-07-19
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

Premier Field Engineer
Pros: Warm people
Good culture
Learn a lot at the beginning of the role
Cons: Compensation and benefits are a bit lacking compared to other tech companies in Australia.
Too much work and stress. Almost every PFE has this haggard look with dark circles around their eyes. It's no coincidence.
Need to be a jack of all trades: Deep and wide technical knowledge, soft skills with clients, understanding of the inner workings of the business, able to 'sell' products. Although all these skills are required, once again, the compensation is quite poor.
Company provided computers are not sufficient for technical work. They are specced way too low.
PFE Role feels like an afterthought to the rest of the business.
Not much opportunity for growth internally as the max level of a PFE caps out very low compared to other roles.