MicroStrategy Sales Engineer reviews

4.3

88% would recommend to a friend

(21 total reviews)
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Phong Le

100% approve of CEO

91% positive business outlook

Sales Engineer employees have rated MicroStrategy with 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 21 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Sales Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. MicroStrategy is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Sales Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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21 reviews
2.0
Mar 10, 2020
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Pros

Very hard-working colleagues and some great mid-level management. The ability to work remotely is also a huge plus. They are also making investments in the products which have resulted in some very competitive offerings.

Cons

Senior management has eliminated compensation for sales on a large portion of the product portfolio yet still expects to have a motivated and effective sales force. The new senior sales leadership doesn't seem to understand the human aspect of leadership. You can't pull comp and expect that to motivate your sales staff to focus on the one remaining item you comp. Instead, it motivates us to find a new company to work for. Initiatives and comp plans are also completely misaligned. Major pushes for sales this year are getting all customers upgraded to the latest software version and moving the majority to the cloud. Guess what sales doesn't get compensated on? That's right, cloud and upgrades (among many other things). Additionally, sales management is putting a lot of pressure on us to boost our pipeline numbers to unrealistic heights. The reality is, people are artificially boosting numbers in an attempt to make things look good but the real prospects don't look promising.

5.0
Apr 25, 2018
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Pros

About the company : Good colleagues and friends. Nice travels. Some employees have a long tenure, which shows there is something in this company. The company clearly tries to apply the corporate values, and it takes time obviously. About the product : nice vision, the product is good and you can feel comfortable selling it. Compares very well to competition. Excellent appraisal from customers. About vision : has been a bit hectic in the past, but looks very clear now : Customer success and satisfaction.

Cons

It's not a startup, it's not a super large group. Trying to grow brings some cultural and organizational changes, and it's trial and error. So many small errors can happen. Applying the new vision is a mix of ordering and explaining. Which is sometimes not well understood by all employees and mid-managers. Therefore, loss in translation, and loss of time to re-engage people.

3.0
Oct 14, 2017

Sales Engineer

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Pros

Good product, decent benefits, good roadmap

Cons

poor management, marketing is bad, sales not aggressive enough

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MicroStrategy Response
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Thanks for the feedback. We are working on improving our approach to management and leadership and focused on improving our sales processes and practices so that we can optimize the great innovation we are seeing in our product releases and put it into the hands of more customers. Please continue to provide feedback to us - more detail is better so that we can act on it.
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