IBM wasn't Silicon Valley. IBM was IBM, and then there was Silicon Valley. IBM is cut from a very different cloth than Silicon Valley companies that were actua

IBM wasn't Silicon Valley. IBM was IBM, and then there was Silicon Valley. IBM is cut from a very different cloth than Silicon Valley companies that were actually founded and ran in SV in the 80s / 90s. I wouldn't use them as the measuring stick. Microsoft was pretty well known to pay really well too (granted out of Seattle / Redmond, but they grafted the SV culture really well). They also had perks and bonuses and big stock grants. Netscape, Yahoo! etc. They all had some variation of this going on.