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25% isn't really good enough to bring it in line with other FAANG tier companies. MS is still significantly underpaying at pretty much every level.

The only benefit to choosing MS is for better work-life balance than Amazon or Meta, which are notoriously competitive environments.

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Well, that's a pretty big "only benefit". I'd love to work for Microsoft but would never in a million years consider working for Amazon or Meta, even if you literally offered me a million dollars a year. I'd much rather take something like a third of that and enjoy my life; I've already got fuck loads of money (by my, and most "normal" people standards)

I find it hard to enjoy my life when the vast majority of my creative energy is sapped by a unfeeling corporate machine anyway.

It also doesn’t seem like it’s a 25% bump in total comp.

> Microsoft plans to “nearly double” its budget for employee salary increases and boost the range of stock compensation it gives some workers by at least 25%, an effort to retain staff and help people cope with inflation.

Sounds like the cash salary bump is a bit less than twice normal amounts (so likely ~10% instead of 5%).

Separately, the stock grants for some employees will be bumped by ~25%.

It’s not existing grants being bumped, but the ranges offered for yearly perf-based RSU awards. For example, if the range for a level was 0 - 10K, it is now 0 - 12.5K.

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