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For a 30 years old company Microsoft is still pretty impressive.

• sounddust 17y ago
  Heh, when I worked at Microsoft we once had a division-wide developer meeting, and a business dev guy was doing a presentation on how well the company is doing financially. At one point he said "As you can see from this chart, your division is doing quite well, earning XXX dollars in profit per developer!" At that point we all just sort of looked around at each other while trying to reconcile the difference between our salary and the number, and he paused for a few seconds. You could see a bit of discomfort on his face as he realized exactly what he said and who he said it to. I never heard this figure given in any future division meeting :)