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Re:America to immigrants: keep your entrepreneurs by gms on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @08:25PM (#4610323)
I don't think many (any?) engineers from Google or Facebook would jump to Microsoft for higher pay. If money was the one motivating factor then surely said engineers would be working in finance rather than at Google or Facebook.
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Re:America to immigrants: keep your entrepreneurs by Locke1689 on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @10:00PM (#4610569)
I chose Microsoft partly for the money and would do so again.

I know at least one person at Google who used to work in finance and would not have worked at Google without competitive salary.

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Re:America to immigrants: keep your entrepreneurs by dpritchett on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @08:28PM (#4610334)
Thought experiment for you: what fraction of current salary would it take to get a current Googler to flee the company? Would they still do the work for $30k rather than $150+stock?

No company with with an HR department is going to their average employee over $100k without a business reason.

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