Some feedback on this graphic's data: At least at Microsoft, my recruiters told me that a huge portion of the resumes submitted were from people who submitted

Some feedback on this graphic's data: At least at Microsoft, my recruiters told me that a huge portion of the resumes submitted were from people who submitted either every day or multiple times a day. There's a "zeroth" reviewer that is a computer that determines and processes duplicates. I'd assume Google has the same problem and a similar solution (or else they hire a lot of recruiters). I don't think this graphic's "25% increase" number accounts for attrition. I would expect Google's total attrition number (bad+good) to swing between 5-10% year to year. Would people please stop quoting salary numbers as if that's the major portion of compensation at these kinds of companies? The reason it's hard to leave places like MSFT/Google/Amazon isn't the salary; you can get that anywhere. It's the N-year vesting stock grants. Once you've been there for N years, you have a full set rolling and vesting each year, with the number increasing every year. As you pass N years, you typically go from 100% of your salary in additional stock-grant income to some moderate integer multiple. Not counting bonuses. It's getting people to leave behind many hundred thousand dollars of pending grants that's tough, not matching the salaries.