Education: M.S. in Computer Science
Years of Experience: 2 (before M.S.)
Prior Experience: 1 internship at Amazon
Date of the Offer: March 2020
Company: Microsoft
Title/Level: L60 (Research Software Development Engineer)
Location: Redmond, WA
Salary: 40,000
Stock bonus: 214k
Benefits: Usual
Other details: Microsoft is known for criminally lowballing candidates. This is extremely frustrating. Original offer was for L59 and less compensation.
I had competing offers from 2 FAANG companies and negotiated couple of times, finally they came back with L60 and this offer. I rejected. (Accepted offer from a different company).