What would happen if Microsoft starts to offer competitive comp similar to FB/Google?

EventMobi / Eng
RwgL40

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Mar 31, 2018 49 Comments

Would the quality of its product drastically improve? Would its stock price also drastically improve?
Or nothing would happen?

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  • Please keep your leet coders to yourselves. We want humans making products for other humans, not code fanatics wanking over code purity.
    Mar 31, 2018 5
    • New
      KnjJ83

      New

      KnjJ83
      What are the qualities of a code fanatic wanking over code purity?
      Mar 31, 2018
    • This is really strange. Msft interviews also ask leetcode questions just like any other companies. No idea what you are talking about.
      Mar 31, 2018
  • No, the quality of its product is fine. The biggest impact would be that work life balance reduces
    Mar 31, 2018 0
  • Amazon
    yeehaw!

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    yeehaw!
    Code fanatics wanking over code purity - this is awesome.
    Mar 31, 2018 11
    • Microsoft / Eng
      corpcult

      Go to company page Microsoft Eng

      corpcult
      When they're on every single line they can be pointless. Especially when it's always arbitrary boilerplate code, or assertions for each position in the stack. I'm all for assert, log, validate parameters first lest return. Calling important workload functions that do heavy lifting should have the full treatment. But when it's every other line, it adds up and becomes onerous as opposed to intelligent. Make the called code properly assert and log and everything else and stop worrying about doing so for everything that calls it.

      My point is that there are people in my experience that say these things to show that they contributed to code reviews. Not that the observations and recommendations they made contributed value to the correctness, maintainability, or performance of the code.
      Apr 1, 2018
    • How are asserts of any help in cloud services? You can't/should not ever hook a debugger to the live service.
      Apr 1, 2018
  • Google / Eng
    Ringa

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    Ringa
    Offering high salary would probably increase its desirability among the applicant pool, at least for more people to choose to interview at Microsoft (so the offer can at least be used as a negotiation tool with other companies). To start stealing people from fb or google, they would also need to offer interesting challenges and career prospects.
    Mar 31, 2018 5
    • Hasn't Google also massively slowed down employee count in the past year or two?
      Mar 31, 2018
    • Google / Eng
      Ringa

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      Ringa
      Yes and I am leaving (not for growth reasons but for lack of empowerment reasons)

      Also, being better than Google on one of its worse characteristics won’t make Microsoft a great place to work at. It will just be less worse, but there will still be better places.
      Mar 31, 2018
  • Not a damn thing 99% of us are replaceable
    Mar 31, 2018 3