Microsoft gives special stock awards to high performers. Does companies in FANG have the similar award? Is it only in Microsoft because Microsoft pays lowly in general?
Regular refreshers at other tech company are more than most SSA's at Microsoft anyway. But the answer is yes. I know at least Google and Facebook have discretionary grants that can be huge, like 500k+ easily.
To be clear, those are rare and mostly for L6+ high performers.
I know Facebook has additional special stock grants for high performance
Can you quote some numbers as to how big they are at msft
Very common at FB
Most companies, tech or not, have some sort of special bonus provision, although it often isn't in the form of stock.
This looks like a good move. Will possibly help MS in alluring more quality people who are wary of the TC going down after a few years. I think FB does this too but in their case, the refreshers are already good.