I am an ex MSFT Principal Engineer, currently working in a startup. I was approched by a ServiceNow recruiter for a Principal role (back end ) based at Santa Clara. I was asked for my salary expectations and I was not sure what to answer. TC these days is way more than what it was 2.5 years ago. Looking for a change because well my short term financial situation is bad and will get worst by mid 2020! previous tc ( 2.5 years ago): $310K current TC: $160K (2.5% equity)
And do you have a specific question that I can help you with?
Principal are typically parked under IC6
It is same as director
In terms of pay
Do you know what typical offers are at this level?
For IC6, you should be able to easily ask for 400k + 200k in RSUs in the Bay Area market.
For Ic6 this is reasonable
Servicenow should be able to match comparable TC from MSFT. Also depends on your IC level. Do you know what level you are getting considered?
Thanks so much! It’s Principal Level. I am expecting to do better than what I did 2.5 years ago. Also how is the work culture at Service Now. Also how are interviews structured. I am rusty on Leetcode style questions ( looks like it is the norm now:-)).
Servicenow, Workday, Box, Salesforce, MSFT they all have comparable TCs, so I believe you should be able to ask what is comparable. I am in San Diego so not up to date with Bay area TCs. Work culture depends from team to team. Platform and UI/UX teams work on core technologies so you will find yourself solving complex problems in these teams as compared to Apps team. We have 2 releases a year to customers and follow 2 weeks sprints. Interview will most probably be leetcode and Java specific questions