Someone addressed this on Quora: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-jobs-start-at-Level-59-at-Microsoft https://www.quora.com/Why-do-jobs-start-at-Level-59-at-Micro..

Someone addressed this on Quora: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-jobs-start-at-Level-59-at-Microsoft https://www.quora.com/Why-do-jobs-start-at-Level-59-at-Micro... Says that levels start around 50 but those lower numbers are for non-engineers. Not clear to me why it doesn't just start at 1 though.