MSFT Counter Offers to Stay

Nov 21, 2017 38 Comments

YOU worked at MSFT, and at some point you received a counter offer from MSFT to stay.

What was you MSFT level? What was the MSFT counter offer? Did you stay? Good choice?

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TOP 38 Comments
  • Never accept a counter offer. It temporarily fixes things but the manager will no longer trust you. Leave the team and come back after a while if you must
    Nov 21, 2017 10
  • Amazon
    n01

    Go to company page Amazon

    n01
    L66. After getting external offer and resigning, I got 500K in SSA to stay. Yet, regreted it almost as soon as saying that I would stay. Manager started to throw all new work my way, and promptly forgot all other topics discussed and documented when we discussed refusing the external offer: more business scope, less interference of PMs in dev team I managed, more budget and time for team learning goals, etc.

    Left 6 months later to L7 position at Amazon, and my regret now is not leaving earlier!
    Nov 21, 2017 3
    • Yup. Counter offers never work

      OP, they said they managed dev team. So not a TPM.
      Nov 21, 2017
    • Amazon
      n01

      Go to company page Amazon

      n01
      Commute is not such big problem as it looks: I drive to one of the listed locations and get the Amazon shuttle downtown, and back.

      Work as a Senior Dev Manager at Amazon is like a Partner Dev Manager at Microsoft. You manage teams, having technical and business responsibility.
      Nov 22, 2017
  • Facebook / Mgmt
    BillyBob

    Go to company page Facebook Mgmt

    PRE
    Microsoft
    BillyBob
    63, 20% raise... 1 level promo. Asked for double promo, take on a bigger team as manager and 60% raise. Aka in line with what my competing offer was. MS low balled it, otherwise I would’ve considered it.
    Nov 21, 2017 0
  • 65 stayed, offer was promo 200k stock and some bench program. Was worth it but I left a couple years later
    Nov 21, 2017 5
  • Salesforce / Eng
    Dufenshmrz

    Go to company page Salesforce Eng

    Dufenshmrz
    62
    No
    Best choice.
    Nov 21, 2017 2