Probably he was still getting paid a lot? It is MSFT after all.
I imagine that a certain kind of person, willing to write tooling and even get demoted for it, is willing to stick around with a bit of a pay cut anyways.
I imagine that a certain kind of person, willing to write tooling and even get demoted for it, is willing to stick around with a bit of a pay cut anyways.
Anybody who could get more than the 66th percentile elsewhere, more power to them. Anybody who thought that "66th percentile" meant they were being paid less than average, well, their departure was probably regarded as good attrition with a chuckle.