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Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by Barrin92 on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:19PM (#18463452)
Facebook also has a comparatively small number of employees compared to the other big players and as a result significantly more net income / per employee.

https://www.recode.net/2017/8/4/16090758/facebook-google-pro...

Income per employee (as of 2017 according to the article) is about three times as high as it is for Microsoft.

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Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Comp... by oculusthrift on Thursday November 15, 2018 @11:22PM (#18466376)
that isn't really a fair comparison considering microsoft makes a significant chunk of money from enterprise and that requires a lot of salesmen instead of engineers.
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