This bonus will be paid to you within 30 days following your start date. "We are pleased to offer you a signing bonus in the total gross amount of $25,000.00 USD, less applicable tax withholdings. Below I've included the exact wording from a Microsoft SDE offer we negotiated recently. In comparison, Google, Facebook or Amazon rarely clawback your entire signing bonuses. However, it's not guaranteed and requires a good relationship with your current manager. We have been able to assist clients who were leaving Microsoft during a claw-back period to be exempt from returning their signing bonuses. This ultimately requires you to say for multiple years or risk returning your signing bonus. For example, if you had a $35,000 signing bonus in the first year and $25,000 in the second year and you left after 1.5 years, you would be required to pay back your second year signing bonus as the claw-back period hadn't expired for it yet. If you have a multi-year signing bonus, each part is subject to a separate claw-back period. Notably, Microsoft can clawback your entire signing bonus if you leave before the 1-year mark. Microsoft will pay your signing bonus in your first month of employment - unlike Amazon which is prorated. If you attempt to change the distribution too early in the negotiation, you risk leaving substantial amounts of money on the table, as Microsoft will focus on whichever of your requests will cost them the smallest amount of money. However, it's important to time this request correctly. This is true for $50K signing bonuses all the way up to the largest signing bonuses we have negotiated, which were well over $500K. Microsoft certainly has a strong preference to keep this even split, but with the right approach we have been able to negotiate this to be weighted more heavily towards the first year. By default, the signing bonus will be split into two equal parts. When signing bonuses are larger than $50,000, Microsoft will usually split them over two years. As a reference, Microsoft signing bonuses are typically much lower than Facebook signing bonuses, but only slightly lower than Google. The two most helpful pieces of leverage are 1) competing offers 2) retention bonuses at your current company. base salary and equity).įor most technical roles at Microsoft, it is possible to negotiate a higher signing bonus even if it's not in your initial offer. This can be a good way to increase your offer since Microsoft is less flexible on recurring increases (i.e. It's a common recruiter trick to leave it out of the initial job offer. Many Microsoft offer letters don't include a signing bonus by default.
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