Comment by hardware2win

3 years ago

>On-hire stock awards: $310,000 default to $1.2 million with approval

>Annual stock award range: $0 to $945,000

Wow. Those numbers are huge

Context is key - for that level, they're pretty bad numbers compared to the rest of big tech. Equivalent at Meta/Google/Amazon would be making vastly more. Microsoft usually punches well below its weight for compensation.

  • They return the favor with a chiller work-life balance and Washington State's lower taxes (obv not applicable to the large campus in Sunnyvale/Santa Clara)

There are only a few hundred people at this level. Maybe like 200-300 people.