The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management

Re:The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Manage... by paxys on Sunday July 06, 2025 @10:26PM (#44486165)

The majority of Microsoft employees are in Seattle/Redmond, which has no state taxes and a lower cost of living than the Bay Area, so it isn’t a straightforward comparison.

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Re:The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Manage... by Arainach on Sunday July 06, 2025 @10:31PM (#44486195)

It's a straightforward comparison in the area. Below Principal/Staff, Microsoft's stock awards are a (very unfunny) joke and their comp is pretty meh.

I left in 2018. I was 63 (first level senior) and had offers from Google and Meta for a downlevel (L4) at a 40% increase in total comp. The gap has closed slightly in the last 7 years but not much at those levels.

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Re:The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Manage... by dshacker on Sunday July 06, 2025 @10:39PM (#44486255)

Same experience for me, I still remember at IC1 getting 7k stocks over 5 years as my "stock bonus" for the year. which meant getting 1 or 2 MSFT stock every 4 months :D

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