Technology Solution Professional: avoid like the plague - Technical Solution Professional Microsoft Employee Review

1.0
19 Sept 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nice campus, meet new people from different cultures, make some friends for life. Great products and chance to work with a great platform. Excellent brand strength with customers.

Cons

-A lot of first time managers who are out of their depth and haven't a clue. -Overall management team extremely poor and a serious lack of communication and direction from all levels of management. They simply do not care about their teams. You are a number on a spreadsheet. -The role definition and associated tasks change on a weekly basis based on management whims, and usually involves admin and nothing remotely technical. -This is not a technical role, more business development and admin. -Huge gap in salary between new hires and current employees, no clarity on this or interest in giving parity to people who have been working there for a number of years. -You spend your day doing other peoples jobs because they have hired so many non tech people with no appreciation for the help you provide. -Too many layers of people between you and the customer, the sales structure is a mess and nobody knows what they are meant to be doing. -Inside Sales org is a complete mess. -No career progression.

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5.0
5 Jun 2026
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Pros

Learned a lot, plenty of team work opportunities

Cons

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4.0
28 Jan 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. If you love tech, this is a great place. No doubt you'll talk tech (mostly the MSFT stack) from enterprise to consumer - from PCs to phones to Xboxes - from datacenter to desktop. 2. What were GREAT benefits are now VERY GOOD (took a small step down) but still probably better than you'll find at 99% of large corporations. If you've got family - the value of the benefits is even higher. 401k match is nice. 3. Even with it's struggles MSFT is still a cash printing machine. This means if you can keep your nose clean and do reasonable work, you can have a stable job, pay your bills, feed your family, and not worry (too much) about layoffs. The stock you own likely won't tank, but probably won't go up much either. You'll get a bonus each year and some stock. It's a decent life if you aren't looking to light the world on fire.

Cons

Brand on Your Resume: After many years of losing market share and struggling to be at the front end of innovation and the fact that there's 90,000 employees, don't think MSFT is necessarily going to be attractive on your resume to more agile and smaller companies. Managing Your Career: Make you say this out loud so it registers - 90,000 employees work there. Double that for vendors. It is VERY hard to "stand out" and move up in the company. Don't expect your manager to be much of an advocate or enabler to help you meet your career goals - they are basically trying to survive the stack rank every year too. Not familiar with the stack rank? Check out the 2012 Vanity Fair article called "Microsoft's Lost Decade".

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