Company: Microsoft
Date: 2018-09-11
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Junior

If you aren't a TSP for Inside Sales it might be a good place
Pros: -Culture: You are open to doing hundreds of activities of outside work
-People:  You can meet smart people and be a nerd as much as you want
-Food: Free drinks and fruit
-Brand: Microsoft and Microsoft Cloud are very strong and I would definitely invest in it
Cons: -Unfair: People with the same experience and/or the same nationality are not treated equally.  Every manager is not aligned with each other. As an example (of hundreds): some managers allow some remote working while others not.

-Salary: They are rude about your performance, they really don't care if you perform well or not. Some people with less experience are paid much higher. Some really good people that are here since almost two years are still less paid than new hires (because they have realized that the salary was too low compared to the market, but they don't want to fix the situation for the old employees.)

-Disrespectful: By paper and in theory, as a TSP you should be one of the most valuable people in sales. You can architect, design and solve technical problems. Nurture the customer with your knowledge, make him happy showing how magical is the cloud.
Unfortunately, nothing about this happens. Not only you are the one who is less paid, (but everybody is looking for your help), but also they don't allow you to work properly.  You are assigned tasks that go against the client and against your duties, some even against the duties of your colleagues.  Everybody here has personal KPIs, metrics, and targets. You as a TSP not. If you perform very well or very poor it would not make any difference in your salary. The few KPIs that are assigned to you are made by people who don't understand what is your job and how you can do it. (For example, they pretend that you have a very high Social Selling Index on LinkedIn, impossible as we don't perform any management activity with accounts).
Do you want to deliver an excellent presentation in person for a really good opportunity? Some managers allow this while others not.

You have told them a lot of times that there are a lot of problems here. We have done surveys,  hundreds of meetings, and a lot of official communication but they pretend each time that they are not aware of the situation and they will "fix" this asap. After two years nothing changed.

-Career: There isn't any career development plan after two years. Everybody here has an opportunity to grow (example: ISR to AE to Manager). You don't have and they don't think about it. Do you want to apply outside Inside Sales? Better not tell him that you work in this department, otherwise, they will not even look at you as they are fully aware of the situation here and the number of unnecessary people that work in this department.

-Training: We have really good people at Microsoft that could teach us the technology behind this company. But no.
Training is provided by colleagues that got expertise from other colleagues and so on, all of them from Inside Sales. It is a recycle of old knowledge.