Company: Microsoft
Date: 2015-09-22
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: former

Account Executive
Pros: - Good compensation and salary
- plenty of resources and access to knowledge or understanding the industry trend
- people in general are collaborative, everything has process
- Satya is bringing fresh air in; good luck and still need lots of house cleaning
Cons: - tons of politics (which is normal for any MNC), not so much about the actual result but more in positioning and knowing people
- lost its root with developers/techies, some people tend to be business
- selling to customer comes second, most importantly is to fulfill all internal extra curriculum
- peanut butter management style - same stuff spread across all organization
- water mellon effect - for kpi that shows green on the outside but inside is red
- need to be smart maneuver it as certain roles are doomed at the beginning