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+20k bonus, in addition to the years of steady above average salary for your area and great benefits (like full high quality healthcare for your entire family),
by qbasic_forever 3y ago
+20k bonus, in addition to the years of steady above average salary for your area and great benefits (like full high quality healthcare for your entire family), etc.
Corporate jobs aren't a slot machine, they're a place to pay the bills without stressing about it every month.
- lisasays 3y agoExcept -- for the people you work for (and their investors) they absolutely are a slot machine. That just so happens to be rigged in their favor.
- qbasic_forever 3y agoIt's a public company though, you can be an investor too. In fact you are probably given stock awards that over time would make you a ton of money in the long run. When my friends started working at MS 15 years ago they were getting stock awards at a 20-40 dollar per share price... now those shares have gone up substantially in value (~10x in that time). It's not quit your job and never work again money, but it's definitely enough to afford a big down payment on a home.
- sgerenser 3y agoAnyone who was Senior or higher at Microsoft 15 years ago, did’t sell their RSUs as soon as they vest, and are still there almost certainly made enough cumulatively to buy a house in cash, even in Seattle.