My friend, Joel "On Software" Spolsky, is steaming mad this week, and frankly he has me concerned about all of the programmers the industry is losing to Microsoft and Google.
When we lost Erwien Saputra to the Borg a couple of years back, we thought he had gone to a better place, but Joel—who was once one of Microsoft's brightest stars—says that couldn't be farther from the truth...
"Why I really care is that Microsoft is vacuuming up way too many programmers. Between Microsoft, with their shady recruiters making unethical exploding offers to unsuspecting college students, and Google (you're on my radar) paying untenable salaries to kids with more ultimate Frisbee experience than Python, whose main job will be to play foosball in the Googleplex and walk around trying to get someone...anyone...to come see the demo code they've just written with their '20% time', doing some kind of, let me guess, cloud-based synchronization... between Microsoft and Google the starting salary for a smart CS grad is inching dangerously close to six figures and these smart kids, the cream of our universities, are working on hopeless and useless architecture astronomy because these companies are like cancers, driven to grow at all cost, even though they can't think of a single useful thing to build for us, but they need another 3000-4000 comp science grads next week. And damn-it, foosball doesn't play itself."
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