Don't know if it really makes sense for companies like MSFT to follow these tactics. Microsoft has around 80,000 employees compare to 16K employees at google. B

Don't know if it really makes sense for companies like MSFT to follow these tactics. Microsoft has around 80,000 employees compare to 16K employees at google. Besides, I think, average age of Microsoft employees is higher than google employees. Free food is not as lucrative for a middle age family man as compare to a new grad. I heard from MSFT old timers that though Microsoft never had free food, they were quite lenient with food in their early days. However, you have a point, in my opinion google has able to attract best tallent. Not sure how much free food accounts for it.