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It quickly decays to around 150-180k; the refreshers and bonus are lousy <L63 at MSFT.
by zeusk 3y ago
It quickly decays to around 150-180k; the refreshers and bonus are lousy <L63 at MSFT.
- explaininjs 3y ago"quickly" being 4-5 years?
- zeusk 3y agoQuickly being, 1 year and can go lower after 3 years if you don't get a SSA.
- explaininjs 3y agoDon't know what an SSA is. But I've seen flat/gently-increasing payout curves over 4 years, ~250k each.
- zeusk 3y agoI worked at MS for 3 years after undergrad, My first year was 221k, 180k, 191k and would've been ~185k for Y4 then 160k after cliff. SSA is Special Stock Award given arbitrarily (M2s are not sure or have any say in who/how much to be given) but believed to be used for retention by HR. Annual stock refreshers for <L63 at Microsoft are in the range of 0-20k vesting over 5 years. I chose to move to Amazon then recently Apple.