Base:115k Signing: 10k Stocks: 20k total over 4 years Location: redmond I don't have any other offers so I have no leverage to negotiate. I have about 1.5 years experience total. I'm happy with the offer as it a huge step up from my current salary at Boeing. However my friends say I got lowballed with stocks and bonus. Thanks!
You’re not supposed to ask if you can negotiate, you just negotiate.
Welp lesson learned for the future
Offer seems fine, there's some wiggle room for signing and stock, not a whole lot. Don't compare yourself the new grad offers, they're incredibly different and have much larger stock and signing.
Ya I viewed others new grad offers and they were eye popping
Aye, I came in as industry L60 as well, was able to bump my offer without competing offers, so I don't see harm in asking. I was also in a spot where the offer as it stood was significantly better than my current comp. (I did mention new grad offers as well as others that I had heard about). What's funny is my unvested amount is still higher than my initial grant due to stock growth and my unvested stock total is considerably more than my on hire grant (many multiples more). A few years and a few levels later helps. 😊
They know you’re going to take it anyway because it’s an upgrade from Boeing. For what it’s worth even with competing offers unless they’re from FANG you’re not going to get enough of a bump to make a difference. That being said, Microsoft is a great company, with tons of cool products and teams and top of the industry benefits. Congrats!
Thank you!
You could try " if you give me $15k sign on and $40k stock I'll accept " and see what they say. Prepare for them not to bite, though. You do have leverage: the willingness to walk. A competing offer isn't leverage, it's evidence to back up the threat that you'll walk.
Stock and sign on is way low. I hired fresh it of college with a MS and couple of internship experience SDE at l60 same base and 5x more stock. The person had coming over though. Did you interview anywhere else? DM me.
I think your offer on stock and bonus for an L60 and 1.5 years of experience is in the right range and not a lowball offer. New hires from elite schools and who beat out hundreds of other applicants in the college hire recruiting program get much higher offers on stock and bonus but as an industry hire not presumably coming from a top school your offer is about right in my opinion
This is an incredible lowball. 5k stocks per year huh???? That’s chump change (for sde/swe). My new grad friend just signed an offer at MS for 120k/4 stock. Base about the same too
I got a similar offer and similar YOE and was able to negotiate to 120/50/15 but I was currently making more at Amazon. I'm turning down the offer because the manager and team sounds toxic but you should try to negotiate up too if you can.
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Role? Base is ok. If you are a SDE you have room for signup and stocks. If you did well in the interview, reach out to recruiter and let them know your figure. Below is the TC for one of my friend who joined couple of months back as SWE Base - 110k Signup - 30k Stocks - 65k over 4 years
It's for software development engineer. I asked if I could negotiate it higher but was told unless I have other offers then they won't be able to
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