Microsoft just leaked their official compensation bands for engineers. We often forget that you can be a stable high-performing engineer with great work-life balance, be a BigTech lifer and comfortably retire with a net worth of ~$15M!

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On the top chart: Blue is base, purple is stock, green is bonus

lot of discourse about how "very few reach that level", but i actually would push back. 90%+ of people get bored or upset they didnt get promoted the year they wanted to and leave. if you do the hard thing of just staying put and being consistent, odds are you'll make it up top