Interviewing with multiple teams in Microsoft. YoE - 2 years Currently at Amazon with TC 170K With my experience would I be considered at Level 61 or 62 (I believe these are the 2 SDE2 levels) What's the salary range (high band, low band) for these levels? TIA
60 at most
The standard intern offer last year was 200-220k tc at L60. I've seen one industry hire get 225k at L61. I don't have too many data points apart from that though.
I was hired at L62 with 3 YoE... But I am a 👨🎤
I had an competing offer. But I got a L62 at 1.7 years.
Wow.
MS is known for lowballing
60 or 61 at most. But they will beat your current comp :)
Interesting, I’m 2.5 YoE and just heard back from my onsite Friday that I’d be getting an offer. I went into this expecting 61 at minimum, but these comments have me a little worried. Current TC is 170 base + options. I also had an L4 Quora offer which maps to 61-62 via levels.fyi.. Think I did well on the interviews and competing offer will help. I’ll let you know what I get
IMHO you'd have to be a rockstar to hire in at 61 with only 2 YOE. But 60 likely can't satisfy your TC need, so you'll get level inflated. In that case, I'd target 61 rather than 62 so that your first promo won't be a major band change (2 to senior). Your TC target should be doable at 61 with on-hire stocks, but the 4 year cliff is real.