I worked for a Fortune 50 up until about a year ago. In the 5 years I was there every single strong developer that I met left. They were paying sr. devs the s

I worked for a Fortune 50 up until about a year ago. In the 5 years I was there every single strong developer that I met left. They were paying sr. devs the same as 'business analysts' that simply repeated their managers instructions to the devs. In my last week I told a director there, who was my manager when I first started that 'you guys don't pay enough for good devs' and he looked at me like I pissed in his Cheerios, I think I hit a nerve. Since then they've had another purge of overpaid project managers and analysts and are now trying to train up the remaining people there to be developers. It is a completely pathetic endeavor from what I've heard from the people that I still know there. It sounds like the farm team is not working for them.