alt Hacker NewsThat’s exactly what happened. For the past decade, the crème de la crème went to Google and Meta, which offered nearly double what Microsoft paid new graduates. Microsoft hired the next tier, after the top talent had already been skimmed off by Google and Meta.
Intel/AMD hired 2 tiers below MS. Intel's "great place to work" corporate propaganda was known as "Great place to leetcode" by engineers there.