Company: Microsoft
Date: 2016-11-15
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Customer Success Engineer
Pros: Strong team, leadership and great benefits (including fitness benefit and catered lunch). The sales team was always motivated and would hit target sales goals every month. Very exciting to work with this bunch! 

Had a week-long internal summit "Xummit", which was a lot of fun and great way to meet the whole company. Also had a week-long "Xamarin Evolve" conference with great sessions on mobile topics and a fun way to engage with customers one-on-one. 

...And Xamarin throws great parties!
Cons: Usually a 9 hour work day in the office, making it challenging for anyone that commutes more than 30 minutes one-way. Can be challenging to have a work-life balance. This is a work-hard, play-hard workplace (which you could see as a pro or a con).

Management leadership was strong, but that could also have it's downsides. When sales we're down, you're working harder. Leadership needed to address the vicious cycle of working extra hard from the middle to end of the month to close sales, leading to burnout.

I personally could not open-up easily to leadership and voice my full opinion freely. That felt frowned upon.