Expecting following offer from Workday for director. Base: $260k Signon: $80k Stock: $520k/4 years Is this a reasonable offer or should I negotiate higher? How good are their annual refreshers and/or cash bonus? Also does anyone have thoughts on growth potential and internal work culture? Current TC $380k l66 at Microsoft
Location? L66 at MS make 350k+?
Current location in Redmond. 8 YOE. accumulated stock contributes to TC at MSFT. New offer location is Bay Area.
What do you mean accumulated stock? Stock appreciation? Personally I’d stick to MS.
I thought director was equal to sr staff? This seems like staff numbers? Am I reading this wrong?
Interesting. I will try and find out about level.
The rsus seem low - should be at least 800k over 4 years. Lyft gives a million worth to senior engineers
Some fintech companies give more. So what is your point? There will always be a data point which will be more than what is being offered.
My point is that senior swe at other Bay area companies get paid more than what a director at a similarly fairly well established company is being offered
Why would you take this offer? Given the CoL adjustment, you’re losing money.
The COL will be much higher than the TC increases of about $60k. And don’t forget about California taxes on top of that! You’ll be taking home $100k less in CA net net, not worth it.
Great. Thanks everyone! I will try and negotiate more RSU to compensate for CoL. Hoping they can do at least $700k in stock.
How did it end up?
Not worth the move based on the current numbers.
Makes sense. I have emailed them to see what they can do about RSUs
Anyone has feedback on their work culture, wlb, tech stack in ML?
What type of questions were asked at your interview?
Pretty standard - 2 sys design, 1 ML, 1-2 coding+ML. Don't recall the exact questions. I think they were on SVMs, list manipulation, dataflow in stream processing.
How much yearly bonus %?
Don't know. I was told there is no cash bonus by the recruiter. Only RSU refreshers. Wonder if they have any other cash awards at higher levels.
My 2 cents, you should negotiate more. This is not much far from your current comp.