Company: Microsoft
Date: 2011-07-24
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: current

Politics reign in this sales office favoring regularly senior employees (not necessarily good ones) at expense of new.
Pros: Well recognized in the IT industry;
Broad set of products available (from consumer to enterprise space);
Pay/Benefits;
Remote work.
Cons: The word performance is frequently highlighted by top management at all levels however many times it does not translate to reality when employees are evaluated. Main metrics such as quota attainment, commitments achieved, and peer/customer feedback can be ignored when managers stack rank their employees. The process ends up being extremely biased; working more similar to a popularity contest than fair measurement of performance metrics (with perhaps just a few necessary adjustments). For those who have been with the company for a while it is clear that overall employees in the frontline fell a lot of instability.
At last, career progress in the field is very limited as well. High performers in the low base of the pyramid tend to leave earlier as a result.