Microsoft Ohio Reviews

Pros

Great benefits and great work culture.

Cons

I have no cons for this job.

Pros

Working with customers directly to give them their perfect software and hardware combination, and teaching them how to use it.

Cons

I wasn't able to reach my full potential. I am capable of so much, I felt I was hindered by the lack of opportunity to grow with the company.

Advice to Management

Challenge and reward employees for exceeding expectations and making a difference in the company. Treat each person as an asset to encourage personal growth.

Pros

Culture, Senior Management, Customer Focus

Cons

Products that may be launched before they are completely ready

Advice to Management

Satya is an amazing leader and all leaders within the organization need to align with where he is taking the company. Very rewarding job.

Pros

Great teammates, management is dedicated to improving culture and results, and fair compensation.

Cons

Retail, and everything that goes with it. From toxic customers, to terrible hours, to working holidays and weekends. Expect to have no social life without significant effort, as you'll consistently be required to work weekends and nights. You're expected to love Microsoft products... Even if there's something better out there.

Advice to Management

Let your best people work consistent hours as part of compensation. Maybe be one of those daring employers who is closed black Friday or Thanksgiving? It would mean a lot to employees. Provide more upward momentum for those who have college degrees or are working to obtain one. MS Stores are all over the US, but what about corporate Microsoft? Are they present? Let the retail employees have something to look forward to...

Pros

Great company culture! Exciting new direction under the new leadership. There is opportunity if you make the right connections...

Cons

Difficult to transition to other opportunities within the company without having established relationships

Pros

Benefits are top notch One of the leaders in technology

Cons

Work Life balance is sometimes non existent Promotions are more based on who you know, rather than what you bring to the table.

Advice to Management

Be fair on who you promote. I have found that there is a lot of high school type of clique relationships that cause tons of great talent getting passed over based on relationships or lack thereof.

Pros

They try to make the workplace anything special

Cons

It's obscene how a company will not try to retain it's employees who play the most pivotal part in bringing in the money that you horde from them.

Pros

Great brand, solid products, Dominate position in several technologies

Cons

No upside for sales people, quotas calculated to be beyond accomplishment, a great year is 110% of goal and you make an extra 15% of you base salary. Achievement beyond 150% of goal not allowed without review on your "impact" in the sales cycle. No sales culture, management asks for solution sales and doesn't provide budgets, staffing, and comp model to support it. Lot's of hard work with little hope of any upside.

Advice to Management

Start treating people fairly, reward good performance instead of punishing it with huge quota increases.