How Satya Nadella revived Microsoft

Re:How Satya Nadella revived Microsoft by ditados on Friday February 10, 2017 @03:06PM (#13618429)

You aren't at a subsidiary, obviously. As the tide shifts to pushing Azure, the sales people are going ballistic and circle customers like sharks, with insane targets.

I joined a short while ago and deeply regret it, since all we do is sales. Even OSS is treated as a pure sales play.

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Re:How Satya Nadella revived Microsoft by johnnycarcin on Sunday February 12, 2017 @04:07PM (#13630823)

I actually think we are in the same roles (CSA) :).

I have seen the same thing you are talking about and it is certainly one of the shitty parts of the job. Luckily I've done enough with the sales group around me that they are starting to understand that you don't sell Azure like you would O365 or whatever. There are still days where I walk away thinking that I must be on a different planet but the time I get to spend working with customers and building cool shit makes up for all of the bs.

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