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Microsoft
- No one wants to join MSFT I have 6 friends interviewing for new jobs and my team has 3-4 open positions but none of my friends are even remotely interested in MSFT. Even telling them just a resume forward to my manager would guarantee an interview didn't pique their interest. Word on the street about MSFT TC is really terri
- Microsoft offer eval l62 Want to learn more and take more responsibility. Something that can help grow into senior or high band l4(switch in some years) Team: azure Offer 170k base 50k sign on split in 2 years 150k rsu 4 year split 0-20 percent bonus Relocation 8k Is this offer good for Bay Area ? Any comments on incre
- vote Uber vs MSFT vs Google vs Linkedin Hello blinders, Help me make a decision. Posting 2 year avg, can't post breakdown to keep anonymity. Uber (5A) - Interviewed at 5B, got downleveled though they said I was very close. Hence the comp. 2 Year Avg - 604K Microsoft (66) - Nice PE title 2 Year Avg - 522K LinkedIn (Staff) - 2 Year Avg -
- vote Rate your MSFT recruiting experience. Was it good, bad or ugly? Pls share experiences Tc 500 Yoe 15 #MSFT #FAANG #interview
- Microsoft RTO: Feb. 28 Based on this approach and improving local health metrics, our Washington state work sites will move to our sixth and final stage of the hybrid workplace model, effective Feb. 28, 2022. From this date, employees will have 30 days to make adjustments to their routines and adopt the working preference
- Microsoft Austin DV offer eval Have a verbal offer from recruiter which is a down-level from principal position I applied to. Also needs me to relocate. Base: 165 (Was told this is max and can’t be negotiated) Bonus: 15% Refresher: 0 to 60k performance based Sign on Bonus : 50k (Was told this has room to negotiate) Sign on RSU:
- How is Microsoft managing? Yesterday I made a post of amazon high tc offers. From researching on blind, it seems like msft is not on the high end of spectrum when it comes to compensation. I saw lots of msft employees on blind complain and some resign contributing to attrition. Is leadership bumping up peoples tc? Are peop
- Starting at msft soon I am starting soon as a L61. Recession and layoff fears are now getting to my head. Those that were around in 2009, where msft layoffs during that time really bad? Like was survival chance low? Did it depend on team and org? TC:160K
- Microsoft Interview Result Timeline Completed final loop interview for SDE 2 position more then 3 and half weeks back. Haven't got result yet. On checking they are saying they are working with other candidates. Is it worth to concern about the result anymore? I dont have any other offer and very much reliable on this result. Is it nor
- vote Stay at Microsoft or Boomerang back to Amazon [POLL] Hi guys, It's been a few months since I've joined Microsoft after leaving Amazon. Recently, an Amazon recruiter reached out to me and sent me a very lucrative offer with 25% bump from my current CTC at MSFT (which they said is specifically for boomerang folks). I love my work at Microsoft but at t
- Microsoft rto ? Microsoft software engineers, are you actually back in the office? Redmond? Atlanta? Dallas? I know msft is pretty open to remote nowadays but usually when majority of people are in the office, due to fomo most are in the office TC: 71K
- vote Microsoft vs intuit offer help me choose Microsoft(l63) Base:185k Stocks:200k vested over 4 years so 50k each year Signing bonus:30k joining 20k next year Bonus:15%(not sure if it is guaranteed) Intuit offer(senior software engg) Base:180k Stocks:200k over 4 years Sigining bonus:25k Bonus:15%(have been told this is guaranteed) Also betwee
- vote Microsoft (L62) vs Amazon (L5) Have SWE offers from Microsoft (Azure Security division, L62, Redmond) and Amazon (AWS DynamoDB division, L5, Seattle). Both offers are roughly equivalent (~ 260k TC), I have already negotiated and these are the final numbers. Both AWS and Azure teams look decent from what I gathered, especially he
- My journey from MSFT to Google Hello fellow Blinders, I finally did it, got reached out to by a Google recruiter over Christmas didn’t think it was real so didn’t even reply for a month. Finally accepted the interview and as luck would have it my on-call clashed with the interview date. So after prepping for 2.5~3 weeks I took
- Google vs Microsoft Hi Everyone, This my first time posting on Blind. Looking for your input. I currently have a verbal offer from Google, Canada (L6 - Tech, non-SWE) and have final interview for Microsoft with the HM’s manager post the onsite (this round is basically when you clear the onsite - as told by the recru
- I rage quit at Microsoft. Can anyone tell me if I'm blacklisted? I'm genuinely just curious. I got screwed over and made a decision, I'm just genuinely curious. Microsoft TC was 150. Current TC is 250. I got gaslighted by my manager and team for 6 months after an investigation where I was proven innocent. So, I said fuck it, took all my sick and vacation time,
- link Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard for $68,700,000,000 Guess the horrible company culture and sexual harassment scandals didn’t scare them off. Are we happy about this? Who will be the next acquisition? Roblox? https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/18/22889258/microsoft-activision-blizzard-xbox-acquisition-call-of-duty-overwatch
- Offer from Microsoft - Customer Engineer, Security Hi all, I’m looking to get some more context on an offer I got from Microsoft. The initial offer is for a Level 61 position as a ‘Customer Engineer, Security’ (formally known as Premier Field Engineer) Offer is: $125k base $5k sign on bonus $30k sign on stock over 4 years ($7.5 per year) TC: $137.
- vote Paycut to go Microsoft? Manager hint that I will be promoted in Q2 and now I got an Microsoft offer L61 with 220K TC and on my way out. Question: Should I wait for promotion or leave since new L5 TC for amazon is 252k I suppose? If that's so, will be missing out on 32k. Current team at Amazon is decent just didn't like th
- Amazon vs Microsoft or ? I am in a team which has a great culture, relatively laid back but I am not enjoying the job anymore. Have an offer from Amazon and also offer from another team in Microsoft. I have on-site interviews ahead with many companies ( twitter, LinkedIn, Etsy, Wayfair, Facebook, google, some EVs, some stag
- vote Amazon L7 , Meta E6 , Microsoft L67 Blind peeps, help a sister decide. Main criteria are longer term career growth and some WLB (though I seem to be doing ok at Amazon ) Amazon : L7 applied scientist tc 700k Base 260k rest RSUs Meta E6 : base/stock/sign on 255k/1.5mm/100k sign on / 20% bonus Microsoft L67 260k/1mm/400k/30% bonus
- Why is msft atlanta bar lower? Why is bar outside redmond/seattle/Bellevue and bay area lower? Like Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas and Austin? Talking about hiring event L60, L61 etc TC:160K
- Microsoft offer Hey Blinders! Would you evaluate my offer from Microsoft? L63 non tech program manager Salary:. $152,30$75k stock sign on Sign on bonus:. $75k 20+ yoe
- I'm naturally kind of stupid and got offers from Google and Microsoft! I'm in disbelief. I'm a person who is kind of dumb - got good grades in school, but it was not effortless. I'm not the strongest programmer nor the fastest one. I've made tons of mistakes, not only career wise, but in my personal life. Started the interview process in December and had SO many reje
- Wow, Msft coming in strong Current avg Google TC over next 4 years (L5): 345 Msft L66 starting verbal offer (recruiter indicated they can likely go higher): 215 base with 20% bonus 140 sign on (over two years) 600 stock (over 4 years) 4 year avg TC: 443 Pretty impressed with the msft offer. Conflicted because my tenure at G
- vote Meta vs Microsoft In early March, I received an offer from Microsoft for the L61 SDE 2 position. I accepted the offer after negotiations in late March and SIGNED all documents. They are in the process of collecting documents from me for my H1B transfer. Offer details: Base 123k Yearly Bonus: 12k Sign on : 40k over 2
- Microsoft reputation as retirement home? Veteran tech blinders, I was doing some research on great recession in 2009. Msft was still pretty profitable but had a rolling layoff of 5000 people. But i see everyone consistently saying it's recession proof and does not do layoffs and job security is great. People keep pointing to its mountain
- vote Rejecting FB and joining Microsoft I got offer from both. FB offered remote but MS offered position in Redmond. I can’t move to Seattle so MS reduced the offer based on LCOL. Here’s the breakdown. I value WLB very much but also never worked with FAANG before. Is joining MS the right thing ? Org FB Internal data infra MS teams Su
- vote Microsoft India Offer vs Linkedin India Offer I have offers from Microsoft and LinkedIn both are paying same. Microsoft level :- L62 (Microsoft Teams) Linkedin level :- Software Engineer (Compliance) Base :- 32L Stocks :- 15L Performance Bonus :- 10% EOY :- 4.2 #engineering #software #microsoft #linkedin
- vote Microsoft Layoffs? Is it true? Anyone knows which departments are affected? It's pretty sad to see such a big company laying off employees
- Microsoft Raising Pay!? 🥜🥜->💰💰 In the employee town hall, SLT said nothing about pay raise or changes to leveling/compensation structure changes. Any idea when they’ll mention something related to it? TC: 250k Yoe: 2.5
- Microsoft WebXT team? Good? Bad? Will you recommend. #microsoft
- Friend in Microsoft is getting gifts for Christmas 🎄 Friend in Microsoft getting doordash coupons, socks, sweaters and all sort of goodies. I am jealous and working on on-call. I have applied to Microsoft with referral. HR is not processing application.
- vote Offer Comparison - Amazon vs Microsoft Amazon - L5, AWS, Bay area Year 1: Estimated Compensation: $335,033 Base: $184,500 total RSU: 85 shares Guaranteed Cash: $137,100 [y1]. $100,500 [y2]. Microsoft - 62, Redmond Base - 156000 Sign on - 50,000 one time On hire stock - 150000/4 = 37500/ year Total so far -> 243500/ year Annual cash
- Offer from Microsoft VS Shopify as intermediate dev Hey, I have got an offer from both Microsoft and Shopify. Shopify’s TC is around $140 ( $25k stock + $115k base). Microsoft team is office enterprise. I don’t the TC yet but should be a little higher than shopify. I have the choice between Remote or hybrid. I am not sure which one to choose. I wa
- Microsoft hiring mediocre engineers Another rant post L67 here! This is something I’ve noticed in past 1-2 years, Microsoft is not what it supposed to be couple of years back and hiring bar has gone down dramatically!!! Due to the lower than the industry pay standards I haven’t been able to hire top talent from outside, whoever is m
- Msft HW/SW role Got this offer from MSFT (L61): Base: 145k Stocks: 140k over 4 years Sign on: 40k over 2 year (Annual perf bonus upto 20% and stocks upto 24k) Location: Redmond,WA Current TC: 115k Current location: MCOL YOE: 4 years + Masters Degree Thoughts? Any feedback is appreciated.
- Microsoft engineers, how is morale? Msft devs , how is morale? People still vwyf? Yall seeing developers leave? Is attrition real? Or it's minority making noise? I see hiring event after hiring event and opening after opening... TC:210K
- Google, Meta, DoorDash, Microsoft Offers I recently went through an extensive interview cycle with many big tech companies. My goal was to land an exciting senior SWE job with top tier pay. In the end I signed with Meta due to best TC, exciting teams, collocation of office, and desire for a faster work environment. ————————- Final Offers
- Microsoft Shitty pay Why is Microsoft paying so low and why are managers doing nothing about it? #msft
- Microsoft ODSP Org I received a verbal offer, awaiting details, from the ODSP org. Prior blind posts suggest it’s pretty good, but I wanted to know how it’s doing today, right now. I’m super excited about this. I’m awaiting other offers but I’m pretty confident I’ll probably end up going with Microsoft but I want to k
- Help me choose between 2 offers ( amazon vs msft ) Hey guys I have 2 offers from amazon and microsoft and i’m really lost between what to choose. amazon sde 1 tc : 220k Msft l62 tc : 260k Both projects are good and both are in seattle but amazon are flexible I can go to austin too. Amazon recruiter is spamming me and they really try hard to get me
- Microsoft L67 refreshers I heard MS annual stock grants are quite poor, and some other posts said for l67 they are good . Can someone in the know share what the typical annual stock aware for l67 looks like? #engineering #software #salaries #stocks
- Leaving Microsoft in June Hey MS folks, When should I give notice or tell in June so I get to keep my annual bonus? Should it be June 30 only or i just need to have my last date as June 30? Asking because I fear that bonus could be impacted if I were to tell earlier. TC : 250K New TC : 450K YOE : 8
- Microsoft pay is garbage. Don't come here. As title says. Unless you are from tier 4 companies like PwC, TCS, Infosys, don't come to Microsoft. Spend all your energy on leetcode to get into FAANG.
- Microsoft green card initiation Hello, when we join microsoft do we need to talk with our managers about pwd, perm, I-140 and green card process? Does it just happens on it's own? Can we do something to speed things up as much as possible? I heard msft runs labor market test (lmt) quarterly but idk if that is true or not. How fa
- Depressed working at Microsoft Preparing to quit but passing each day in the company is painful Hope to find something soon so that I can quit
- vote Nvidia vs MSFT offer evaluation Update: went with Nvidia. :) Can’t thank y’all for your inputs. MSFT’s offer is final. Nvidia has a small room for negotiation in terms of sign-on. The deadline is tonight for MSFT. Role: Hardware Engineer. (Design Verification Engineer) Yoe: 2 Microsoft: Hillsboro, OR. Base: 131k RSUs: 200k/4
- That time I was fired from Microsoft. Back in 2009 I was fired from my job in product planning at Microsoft. I had been doing customer and market research for what became Windows 8. At the time there were lay-offs happening all over Microsoft and actual terminations (i.e. firings without severance) were amped WAY up. My manager put me
- Adobe SDE2 to Microsoft Noida L60 I received an offer for L60 from msft - 24Lakh Rupees base + 6 lakhs joining bonus + stocks worth 80k dollars (4 year vesting ). My base at Adobe is 17lakhs . I came to know l60 is sde1 at Microsoft . I need to move out from Adobe due to personal reasons so i am most likely accepting this offer. Wi