The work was far more interesting each time. The high paying job was a bullshit Sharepoint app that everyone knew full well would never see the light of day. The middle one was a very, very successful mobile game. The last one was HoloLens.

I think we've long reached the point where there's more very talented people in tech than interesting jobs for them - hence the downward pressure in wages for those interesting jobs.

Were you a contractor? 90k seems really low for MS.