- Education: MS in Computer Science (US university), BSc in CS (Different country)
- Years of Experience: 1+
- Prior Experience:
- SDE1 for a year
- SDE2 at another company
- Date of the Offer: June 2021
- Company: Microsoft
- Title/Level: Software Dev. 2 (L61)
- Location: Atlanta, GA
- Salary: $120,000
- Relocation: $12,870
- Signing Bonus: 15K on first paycheck, $15K end of the first year)
- Stock bonus: $75K stock grant vested over 4 years
- Bonus: Performance-based bonus up to 20% of salary every year
- Annual stock award: Performance-based 0-16k vested over 5 years
- Total comp (Salary + Bonus + Stock): ~$168.75K (1st two years)
- Benefits:
- 15 paid vacation days + 10 paid sick leave days + 10 paid U.S. holidays + 2 paid personal days
- yearly wellness expense of $1200 to spend on sports stuff/gym membership/musical instrument etc.
- 50% 401k/Roth match up to $9k/yr
- fully covered health/dental/vision for employee, dependent, spouse (if employed, needs to pay $75/paycheck)
- Contributes to HSA 2,500
- Paid parental leave: 12 weeks
- 20% of child Tuition, contributes $2/hr to childcare centre
- Employee stock purchase plan: 10% discount, maximum 15% of salary
- Other details: Negotiated once, original offer was SDE1 (L60) which meant base salary was $109k, stock was a smaller amount etc. I mentioned my current position is SDE2 so the recruiter talked to manager and came back with this offer.
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