Education: Tier 1, non-CS
Years of Experience: 8 years
Prior Experience: Good product based company
Current CTC: ~1 cr
Date of the offer: 2024
Company: Microsoft
Title/Level: SSE L64
Location: Hyderabad
Base Salary: 60L (employer PF included)
Signing Bonus: 12L (1st year) + 6L (2nd year)
RSU: $180K for 4 years
Perf Bonus: Upto 30% of base, considering average 15% ~ 9L
Benefits: Standard MS benefits like car lease policy, food coupons etc
Total comp for 1 st year: ~1.2 cr
Interview Experience - https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-experience/5618345/Microsoft-or-L64-or-Hyderabad-or-Offer
Tried negotiating once to increase RSUs but MS did not budge. I don't have a competing offer and need to change job so accepted.
Full disclosure: I posted these details once in Leetcode before joining MS but took it down in short period to avoid any risk - just personal fear probably :)
Reposting now again to give back to community.
