CompensationDec 8, 2019
NewXUio33

Microsoft Azure Offer review

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??

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RingCentral Ringman Dec 8, 2019

Congrats ! Can’t be too bad , better than amazon I guess?

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XUio33 OP Dec 8, 2019

Thank you! I suppose so.. Sounds like that’s what people are saying but I’m unsure

Coupang h1beee Dec 8, 2019

That’s 61 level.

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_95 Dec 8, 2019

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.

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XUio33 OP Dec 8, 2019

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?

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_95 Dec 8, 2019

What's your backing if you want to go higher? I would go with it now, seems fine.

Microsoft taeftatt Dec 8, 2019

It’s level 61. Lvl 59-60 is SDE1

Microsoft iwgdmwve Dec 9, 2019

Stocks can go high

Microsoft dmr Dec 9, 2019

Is this 45k per year?

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XUio33 OP Dec 9, 2019

Nope, one time thing was 45k onhire stock. 0-13k RSU is every year

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XUio33 OP Dec 9, 2019

What do you think of RSU? Do you know what typical base would be for 7 yoe swe?

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DWmV30 Dec 9, 2019

Congratulations!! Did you have a system design round apart from the coding rounds ?

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XUio33 OP Dec 9, 2019

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

Microsoft fjxisbf Dec 9, 2019

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.

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XUio33 OP Dec 9, 2019

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?

Microsoft fjxisbf Dec 9, 2019

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.

Microsoft presci Dec 9, 2019

Side question: Has Microsoft secretly increased the base for each level?

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XUio33 OP Dec 9, 2019

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

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XUio33 OP Dec 9, 2019

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?

Amazon BeffJezoz Feb 2, 2020

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.