Comment by com2kid

> I get that "the deal" at Microsoft is lower pressure for lower pay but it really hinders the talent pipeline.

The deal used to be a lower cost of living in a major coastal city, an amazing campus (it is seriously lovely), every engineer had their own office, serious job security, and an unbelievable health care plan.

Seattle exploded in price, they moved to open offices, Microsoft started doing mass layoffs, and they gutted the healthcare plan (by the time I left the main plan on offer was a high deductible with a miserable prescription formulary).

Hard to attract talent when there is no big differentiator.

Of course in the 90s the deal was work there 10 years retire a millionaire. Easy to attract talent when that is the offer ...