Microsoft only targets 66th percentile????
Some guy wrote about it in a book: https://books.google.com/books?id=1jV-BwAAQBAJ&pg=PT5&lpg=PT5&dq=microsoft+aims+to+be+66th+percentile&source=bl&ots=Ui1MWpT3SW&sig=ACfU3U1l3DCfbN8aKQZSyBsIFYd-o2rlcA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwikyO_rpMToAhUDsJ4KHZ-jBLIQ6AEwAHoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=microsoft%20aims%20to%20be%2066th%20percentile&f=false Was this always the case? Kind of a shock to me since during my undergrad, Microsoft was THE top tech company to work at. Facebook didnt exist, Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy, and Yahoo was way more popular than Google. You would hear stories about students going to intern at Microsoft during a summer and then dropping out to stay there. You would hear about how they asked the hardest brain teaser questions and did campus interviews at top schools where Steve Ballmer would be the interviewer. You would hear how Microsoft printed millionaries from their stock grants. And this entire time they were only trying to target 66th percentile? WTF. I would have expected them to be paying the most For reference, even Amazon at least targets the 75th. I feel like Iโve been lied to my entire life. #microsoft
I don't even think they target that high anymore ๐
I interviewed multiple times there to prepare for my Google interview ๐
This is true. When I asked my manager at Microsoft for more pay he told me they only target 66%ile of the market. Thatโs why I left.
Is there a book to tell Amazon targets 75th?
Not exactly. Amazonโs official stance is every employee gets compensation above the 50th percentile with top performers getting above 75th percentile. External hires have to โraise the barโ and be better than 50% of current employees in that level, so external offers are around that percentile.
True.. Microsoft targets 65th percentile of pay, but provides stability, work life balance, cares a little, good work, maany teams to move etc. If you step back until 2012, not many pure software companies in Seattle. So once u joined MS before that, u sort of settled in and we're happy! That is at Meets rating and based on performance goes up..possible to 80th percentile etc
Stability, eh. They have layoffs also. Now it is really easy to get good ratings and not work much though. I knew so many people whose jobs made 0 impact yet they stuck around 20 years.
This book is nearly 10 years old. Not relevant at this point.