I asked Microsoft employees how to get hired at Microsoft

What is your total compensation? For students who aspire to work at Microsoft, I feel like if I ask people their salary, I should probably share mine too. Today we are on the Microsoft campus asking people questions like, how much money do you make? Come on, so first. The question is what is your job and what product do you work on? I'm a full time software engineer working at xbox.com and then also the xbox console store and I'm an engineering program manager at azure light. edge team, how were you

hired

? I know they said they joined recently, right.

I actually liked the internship two years ago. It's like the Explorer internship program. Oh, what's your total compensation? um, like fresh graduates, like base salary straight out of college. for example if you're in Seattle 112,000 and then the initial bonus can be 25 to 50,000 and then the shares are generally the same it's 120,000 yeah and then for the program manager it's about the same across all aspects 112 20 to 25. I have seen it go from 25 to 100 thousand and the initial bonus depending. 100 thousand started, yes, it depends on where they have computer offers. Did they negotiate at all just because I went in there?

I just negotiated my initial bonus from 25k to 50k holy, yes, really, yes, yes, yes, but I want to do that. You might be able to, yeah, same thing here. What is your advice for yourself? You know, students looking to get into Microsoft become good at interviewing because, um, interviewing and working are completely different things become good, like your interpersonal skills and also your technical skills, the first question we have is, what is your job and what product do you work on? My name is Eric, I'm a project manager, this is my second day here so welcome.

Thank you. I'm currently on Windows devices on the Telemetry Health team. I'm Philip. I am also a project manager. Actually, yes, I joined. How were they

hired

? I think this will be a very good question for you. You just got hired, so I interned here last summer, and yeah, that's pretty easy because you know once you're in the door, it's easier to get really tough from starting from scratch. You don't have to answer the question, but the total compensation I think is 160,000. Great, not including signing bonuses and stuff like that. I studied my master's degree. I got to level 60.

So yeah, yeah, and I think my base salary. it's like 120 less not including similar stock options, do you have any crazy stories from a time when you, I don't know, accidentally broke something really important? I mean, I know there was a blog post recently from the developer that they discovered that a Rihanna Beat Nation song would break hard drives like it was the song itself. I think it's specifically the music video. There is a certain frequency in that video that caused the hard drive to crack as if it failed and the entire operating system to crash as if it were a complete blue screen.

Wow what was the the song uh is janet jackson jackson's rhythm nation okay janet jackson is too powerful she is you won't find a link to that in the description uh do you want to introduce yourself to the camera? Hi I'm Dave Hi I'm Daytree like a day in a tree I've been working at Microsoft for about two years full time I did two internships I started as an engineer but now I'm a project manager You don't have to remember You don't have to share this , but what is your total compensation? And if you want to tell us about that negotiation strategy, he told me off camera, that would be great too, so when I started, my salary was in the very low 100,100,000.

I was excited at the time. It seemed like a lot, but when I started living and working in Seattle and everyone else was getting paid more, I thought I couldn't get what I deserved, yeah, so I decided to be brave enough to ask my manager for a raise, I

asked

for 11, which was very high, but you know, aim with high hopes for the best, yeah, and I got a rate of about seven percent. Oh well, thanks, so where did you get the number 11? Did you make it up right? I took my current salary and looked at what other people in the company I used Glassdoor for that right, the difference was about 15 and I thought they wouldn't give me 15, but if I ask for more they will probably give me.

I more than I expected to give, yes, and I added a little bit of one percent in that portfolio, the percentage of personality, what is your advice for students who aspire to work at Microsoft? Know how to talk to people, know how to sell yourself and learn to show yourself. your skills in one sentence there are so many talented people and I don't think the lack of talent is there I think it's a lack of personality that can really make someone stand out I'm just full of personality if you can't see yourself I want to introduce you to the camera yeah , sure, hello, I'm goose, so I'm a software engineer 2 here at

microsoft

, so what's your total compensation right now?

Total compensation is 170. And I think that includes base and shares broken down. Based on the vesting periods of things over the years, did you negotiate any part of that salary? Yes, so when you intern at Microsoft and they offer you a full-time return, the salary is more or less set. There are some things you can negotiate. You can negotiate the initial level that you enter at and you can also negotiate the signing bonus, yes, and then also the annual shares. I never negotiated my salary when I came in and always regretted it, so what's your advice?

Students who aspire to work at Microsoft. My advice is to focus on what your strengths are and also what you need to improve. I don't know if we should do well on this stream or choose a new place, but I feel like if I ask people their salary, I should probably share mine too, so when I started, shares in Microsoft were worth like $135 a share, Now they're worth like 280 or something like that. It's so good, I know, I was lucky. My stocks were just, they gave me like 120 thousand dollars in stocks over four years, but that ended up going up to over 300, closer to 280 or something like that, so it's been like a big chunk of my salary, yeah, that goes fall. heavy and for the fourth year and then my base I started at 109 but now I've been promoted three times I think my base is like 150 or something like that.

I tend to get a 20,000 bonus every year around September and then my sign-on bonus was also 20 grand, but I could have negotiated that, as I learned today, down to 50. It's awkward to talk about money and especially when you talk to recruiters, as if they came to you with a job offer. I feel this pressure of oh, if I ask for more, I'm worried they'll take it away from me, no, that's not how it works, yeah, and I hope that what I hope you watch this video today learn is knowing your worth, how to ask, how to speak.

By talking to your friends who work in the industry, get advice from them and be honest with your recruiter, I mean yes, that's their job, yes, they won't take away your offer if you ask for more. like you can also try exactly, yeah