7 yoe Coming from an almost no-name company, did ok in the interview, but probably didnt do as well as most Microsoft/fang/etc-targeting devs my age. Was underprepared leetcode-wise. But i think my background in cloud gave me bonus points.. Anyway.. 7 yoe; Microsoft Reston VA. Offered a SWE2 position (does this mean i botched the coding portion?? possible lol. they said there is 2 promos between my offer-level and a senior role.. and one level below me would be SWE1. so i think this is for a level 60?) Base: 133k Stock: “0-13k RSUs per year” they told me On-hire Bonus stock: 45k, w/ vesting schedule On-hire bonus -cash-: 20k, no strings attached Annual Bonus: 0-20% of Salary Any help is appreciated! Also— team seems cool..any thoughts on how MS division Azure is??
That’s 61 level.
I would join, regardless of ur 7yoe, having a fang name on ur resume is too helpful. Azure is not bad they got the government contract recently, they're not going anywhere.
Ok! My first inclination was to jump on it because it’s a big jump from my current TC. But I wanted to put it out there for the Blind folks and see what you guys think lol. Would you say it’s a pretty standard comp package or should I ask for a little more of something?
What's your backing if you want to go higher? I would go with it now, seems fine.
It’s level 61. Lvl 59-60 is SDE1
Stocks can go high
Is this 45k per year?
Nope, one time thing was 45k onhire stock. 0-13k RSU is every year
What do you think of RSU? Do you know what typical base would be for 7 yoe swe?
Congratulations!! Did you have a system design round apart from the coding rounds ?
Hmm a little bit in my last interview had sort of an open ended software architecture portion.. not heavy duty though. Also in my technical screen I was questioned on networking concepts to a moderate extent. Have some background in that so that may have been why they spent some time testing it
Base is good (in Redmond terms), stock and annual bonus are standardized. On-hire stock could be higher, but probably not in a no-name case like yours. Azure is a great org to work for, but it's also big and diverse - there are better and worse teams. Get it, and if you don't like, you can always change a team.
That sounds good thank you. The team sounds pretty reasonable and sharp. When you say change teams, do you kind of mean, change products all together (ie depart azure), or another team within azure. Basically, is MS pretty easy to internal transfer / are they eager to hire Ms employees from other divisions?
Org, such as Azure, consists of products or services. Each product or service consists of teams working on it. Sometimes it's one team, other times it's more. You can switch a team, within or outside of Azure, preferably across products. It's doable and common, but not super easy - you need to have good reviews and go through a whole loop of interviews. I work in Azure and it's almost always people from other orgs, who want to join Azure - not the other way round.
Side question: Has Microsoft secretly increased the base for each level?
I personally wouldn’t know.. but I will say base may be a lil higher bc of my related industry experience (in gov) and clearance
So you think that base figure is pretty competitive for the level offered and my yoe (7yrs)? Also do you know if Redmond pays more than Reston?
Since you have a network background, were you hired for networking team by any chance? Wanted to know the work culture, teams etc in Reston. Specially networking org.
Congrats ! Can’t be too bad , better than amazon I guess?
Thank you! I suppose so.. Sounds like that’s what people are saying but I’m unsure