> BTW, giving this advice depresses me. I'm constantly amazed companies make such a weak effort to retain employees via good compensation policies. The cost of

> BTW, giving this advice depresses me. I'm constantly amazed companies make such a weak effort to retain employees via good compensation policies. The cost of recruiting and interviewing candidates, not to mention training new hires, is huge. On the other hand, turnover can bring a new perception to a problem. I have no idea what the value of that relative to the cost of recruiting and onboarding. In some companies like FAANGs it wouldn't surprise me if some level of turnover was intentional. Google probably benefits to some degree by hiring engineers that just quit over at Amazon; it gives them an insight into how Amazon is solving X problem, which may inform how Google tackles that problem.