20K bonus and promo on top of existing TC and perf incentives is not bad at all.
Also, depending on their level, “creating GitHub Copilot” might actually be part of their baseline role expectations.
Also, depending on their level, “creating GitHub Copilot” might actually be part of their baseline role expectations.
"The VP who worked most against Copilot’s creation, would later tell me I didn’t deserve the promo.
That person is now in charge of GitHub Copilot."
If you are a Dev with skills you will see this all the time in big corp.
Microsoft is excellent as using young, passionate folks, especially ones that don't have experience in advocating for themselves, and pretty terrible at promoting or rewarding individual contributors doing their best to push things forward. Oh and my total comp was garbage. I joined a startup and got a 40% bump without even asking.
I can confidently say no it is not a part of the baseline expectation of any role.
The net result was, predictably, staff engineers went out of their way to leave feedback on PRs (typically worthless, often self-contradictory within short time spans) to keep their name visible, and any pain point raised and effort to resolve it by senior level developers was shot down because some staff engineer "was working on it".
This person is also trying to hire startup roles, so not exactly an unbiased viewpoint, either.