Recent L64/65 MSFT offers?

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bbki

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bbki
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Software engineer here, e5, considering a move to MSFT. What are some recent competitive offers some have seen?

Current tc: 390k after stock drop

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  • SAP
    RzDl47

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    RzDl47
    Levels.fyi is pretty dead on. L65 CAN get very large on hire grant if you're joining a critical org like Azure. But the cliff will be huge. For L65 I've seen $500-600k on hire grants but only in high need roles with multiple competing offers. $100k sign-on on cash is possible, but again not super common. More common is $300k on hire and $50k signing at that level.
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  • Amazon
    qyeuevaye

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    qyeuevaye
    Why msft? Because of easy move?

    Push them, they will make you L66 as well.

    I have seen cases where, to match offer they up level candidate.

    And they will just match your current salary with Sign on bonus. (I have seen 2yrs sign on bonus $120k each yr)
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    • Meta
      bbki

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      bbki
      OP
      Honestly, I like cloud but don’t like what I’ve heard about working at Amazon. Working under Satya sounds 🔥
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    • Amazon
      qyeuevaye

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      qyeuevaye
      It’s a personal choice.
      If salary is not priority then I would certainly recommend msft.
      Just make sure you have competing offer to get better deal (esp. sign on and level). And once you are in, I have also heard people are getting huge Special Performance bonus - which is like huge.

      Besides this, msft does have great employee benefits.

      Btw — gcp is not bad either :) If cloud tech excites you
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  • Recently joined MS as L64 HW engineer, 4 year average will be ~330K in portland (175k+15% target bonus + 400k/4 years initial RSU + 120k sign-on bonus)
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  • Last year 265 at 64.

    If you are from MAANG 300 is possible if you are good candidate they don’t want to lose
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  • Meta / Eng
    killler

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    killler
    My L63 offer a month back was
    170K Base/320K stocks/100K Sign-on/15%
    You can surely target
    190K/400K/120K at L64 ~390K TC.
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