With Satya's email today, are annual stock award ranges expected to be back at the "prior to 2022" levels going forward? Aka 0-32k for L63 instead of 0-64k. I was assuming that increase in stock award ranges was permanent.
The ranges will stay the same. There will be less budget than last year so the rating numbers will be overall lower than last year (and therefore the total amount of stock/bonus awarded will be less).
By this do you mean it's more likely that majority of people will hit the midpoint of the new stock award ranges, or that the expectation is for 100% rating reviews to receive less than the midpoint of the new range going forward? Sorry, just accepted my offer last week, but getting cold feet with the announcements today!
The ranges will stay the same. The budget will be less than last year (but similar to what it has been historically which is roughly 110% of target). 100 rating will still receive the midpoint of the range same as always. Different orgs will handle this differently. Some will peanut butter with 100s and give a small amount high rewards. Some will push people that may have been 100 before to 80 and give more 120+. This is the same wrangling that happens every year. As a new hire this will not impact you at all. It does tell you if you didn't know already that MS is a business and runs as such. Its goal is to make money for shareholders/owners, not employees. If you find a tech company where that is not the case, let me know :)
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