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We must have been blessed with an asshole rep or two!

• ethomson 13y ago
  That would be difficult. Our positive experience was certainly a direct connection to the welcome nature of the product development team and the sales and evangelism teams. Without them, we would have had a much more difficult time making inroads into a sales channel. I'm sorry about your experience and I really hope it's the exception and not the rule.
  • kryten 13y ago
    Which country? We were in the UK and is was the guys from Reading (partner support).
    • ethomson 13y ago
      United States.
    • MichaelGG 13y ago
      In my personal experience, the foreign subsidiary care about nothing except screwing as much licensing out of people as possible. I've dealt with a local MS that told people it was _illegal_ to use a non-regional copy of Windows inside the country. (So, technically, travelling with a laptop using US Windows wasn't allowed.) This was incorrect, they didn't care. In another country, the regional MS office was flat-out corrupt. I have a feeling the incentive structure for the other offices is very different, and the lack of R&D happening there skews the work environment. I've met good individuals, just haven't seen good overall management. Then again, I'm not looking at total sales as my evaluation metric.
      • kryten 13y ago
        Thanks - that makes sense. That matches our experience exactly.