[farseer]

>>since salary is barely competitive even if you are a top performer getting special stock awards

People sitting outside FANG/NAMAMA still drool over those barely competitive salaries you speak of.

[throwawayms4]

My reason for saying that was not to say the employees are not well-paid in an absolute sense. It's that the reality is that caliber of employee has options, and Microsoft does not work to retain them, which results in undesirable (from the company's perspective) attrition.