Throwaway as I work for Microsoft.

This is even more infuriating given that, internally, industry hiring has mostly been stopped across most of the company except for special case above senior attrition, and university and college hiring has been slowed dramatically.

This is part of a concerted industry-wide push to further drive down salaries and undermine employee negotiating power.

I realize unionization has become a dirty word in the US, but I'd love workers to realize there are degrees of organization short of joining a union, but whatever your opinions on this, there's no reason to defend business owners who certainly do not have your best interests in mind.