Microsoft sde offer
I have 15+ years experience I'm getting an offer at Microsoft(Redmond) / software development engineer How much can I expect/ask as Base salary Yearly Bonus Stock Joining bonus
Three fiddy
All depends on level. I can't imagine you're an SDE 1 (L60 or 61) with 15 years experience. What org? What will you do? There's a 100 million jobs here and they aren't all equal.
Not sure on the level. I will come to know tomorrow. In that case I shd be expecting sde2 or senior?. During the interview process they said they will do the leveling. No other details I have except that they want to extend an offer.
Hmm, I guess a good gauge would be how difficult the interview was. Not in terms of your ability, but in terms of what was tested. The org matters too. Some areas are growing and others are shrinking.
Well if you need to ask then you're probably an sde2
If most of your work experience is at Google and you were staff or senior staff engineer, more likely partner. If your experience has been mostly at startup,
People tend to generalize or take things in negative direction. I applied a few years ago, with 10 or so years of experience at no name but good technology companies. Had very good interviews, was offered sde2 lvl 62 informally by the staffing manager, negotiated and got level 63. Numbers vary with time on base and location. 62 could be as high as 150k and 63 might be 180. Bonus range is 10-20% for 62 and 15-30% for senior (63 or 64). Stock and sign on can be all over the place. Depends on your negotiation. But 100k stock should be a so so median for 63 or even 62 if you did good. Sign on can be 0 - 50k. Usually when you ask for higher base which is the hardest for company to do, they offset that by stock or sign on or both. Above base was for Redmond though on the higher side and my understanding of today's ranges. I have read here on blind of lvl 62s making 165 base in the valley
Thanks for taking time and responding. This is really helpful.
You are most welcome
You should ask for 700k total compensation
Universal store. Run away. Not worth it.
Everything is not proportional to years of experience. Also did you work in the same position ? If it was unrelated then it depends on your dev skills where you would be.
What did you end up getting
What level are you getting? 15 yr work experience doesn't give any idea on level.