For anyone other than the absolute top performers, Microsoft's stock grants weren't that great. I left a couple of years ago at L63 with decent reviews and had

For anyone other than the absolute top performers, Microsoft's stock grants weren't that great. I left a couple of years ago at L63 with decent reviews and had perhaps 40K of unvested stock total. I went to Google as L4 for a 40% increase in total comp with a similar offer from Facebook. If I had went as L5 the difference would have been even crazier. Stock refreshes have been significantly higher here.