How is Microsoft able to attract/retain the talent?
The levels.fyi data shows a significant gap with other big tech. Assuming that MSFT hiring bar is also high / tech employees are of good quality, how is MSFT able to retain the talent?
Levels.fyi
Strong financials as a stable company, and good pay. Good work life balance on some teams. Lots of different areas to work. Mostly... the people that are on Blind and Levels/Comp.fyi represent a small group of tech workers who want to push boundaries and get more $$$. Realistically most people in tech are just content
TC is less than half of what I care about in a job.
No state income tax in WA
The ones who have settled down in Redmond probably canât even fathom commuting all the way to Downtown/SLU.
Amazon moving 3 buildings to Bellevue
MSFT is better than 99.9% of companies so there are enough people happy working there or dream of working there.
Lots of good engineers dont have good interview skills nor do they want to go through the hassle.
They donât. Most of them are Indians on H1Bs.
I think there might be more of a difference for engineering roles? The gap may not be much if any on the business/sales side since the PM Pay bands look pretty similar to me. I was recruited by them twice while getting my MBA. Microsoft attracts talent due to the better WLB and wage/hour. MSFT itâs $67.72/hr, Google $61.33/hr and Amazon was $45.15/hr. Source: Poets & Quants.
The answer is: they don't.
+1000 to this comment. No wonder people are leave Microsoft for Oracle!
Elaborate on the Oracle thing please. I was thinking about going back to Microsoft but is that a bad deal in your opinion?