Hey all, I have an Applied Scientist offer from MS Sunnyvale with 169k base, 50k bonus, 7k relocation, and 120k stock for 3.5 years. I cannot join them soon due to sth called export control license. I am working in another company now as a temporary ML engineer with the following info in San Francisco: Founded Date 2001 Funding Status M&A Last Funding Type Venture - Series Unknown Number of Employees 1001-5000 I’m getting 40$/h now! After 2 weeks of working here our VP wants to offer me Senior ML researcher and they ask me for salary expectation. How much should I ask to worth revoking my MS offer?! I’m a fresh Phd grad from US univs but was working 2 yrs back in my home country and done 2 internships here in US. Please guide me how much salary I should expect. The VP says I know bussiness needs well and I get along with the team well, I have track of publications and very hands on engineering stuff...
How come u have a microsoft account then?
done an internship there
Why didn’t they vet the export control situation before making you an offer? Can you ask MS to put you into a non-export control ML team? There must be plenty of teams in MS who do ML.
any MS team wants export control license for the shitty country i came from. i don’t think that’s an option but thanks
Don’t rescind accepting an offer. Move on. If you wanted to stay, you would’ve talked to your original company before signing the offer.
can you please explain more.... move on from which offer/company?
Ah, I was under the impression that you accepted an MS offer but your start date is delayed until MS gets that export contract done. So you didn’t accept the MS offer yet?
Edit: I have already acceped MS offer and am waiting for them to apply export license... but now this current company pushing me through an offer and i don’t know what to do or how much i ask to worth staying in this smaller company
folks, I need to decide soon. Please help!
Are you financially independent? No? Accept the current job, negotiate for max, and then decide if you leave for MS when they give you a start date. Leave yourself choices, and don’t tell your current employer about Microsoft.
they know about MS. that’s make it harder to accept now and decline later
There’s no way they’ll be able to bring you up to a competitive salary without massive resentment or looking to replace you immediately after. Take the offer for sure.
i don’t get it. which offer i should accept? you mean this smaller company cannot pay a competitive salary? so i keep MS