Company: Microsoft
Date: 2019-12-22
Overall rating: 5/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Technical Account Manager
Pros: The opportunity to work with people smarter than me.
The projects and technology under development always inspire me. Almost every event I’ve gone to has had me come away wanting to look into some other cool technology and thinking of the ways it can change the world.
A real career path of whatever you want to be.
Chance to change projects whenever I want. During my interviews, many people were quite open with me: they get bored with a project eventually and want to switch after two years or so. Microsoft’s culture easily allows this.
Compete with Google. Google needs some real competition. Just as Firefox lit a fire under the IE team, MS needs to light a fire under Google.
The benefits are awesome. They truly treat you well.
They are extremely open on telecommuting.
How many companies can you work at where your stuff affects so many people? There aren’t that many…
The challenge. I love challenges. I love learning new things, and working hard to solve problems. Challenges are how you grow.
Cons: Environments vary depending on where and for whom you work. One of the most common complaints are the review rankings which in one form or another exist. They are said to have ended but they do continue in the background. Every organization, regardless of results, is required to identify a given percentage of employees to receive an unsatisfactory performance rating.. This held true for those organizations that excelled and those that failed. One would think failing organizations would be penalized requiring a higher percentage of unsatisfactory ratings, but they were not. Go in eyes wide open realizing your performance is measured relative to your peers.