I hear you, I might give people the benefit of the doubt too much, but I interpreted what he said more like while Facebook and Google were going out of their way to make sure they hired only the best, hiring was just not a point of emphasis for Microsoft and as a result it didn’t hire as many good people

I think that point is fair - at the very least, Microsoft wasn’t in the conversation as far as where the typical CS grad wanted to work - FANG doesn’t even include Microsoft in the acronym (I kid, I realize this doesn’t actually mean anything)