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Doesn’t mention the distribution of employees though. Is the AI/Azure division mostly located in Redmond? If so, the pay scale is very low.

The more these companies consolidate. The less competition there is. Thus can get away with terrible pay.

I don’t know why anybody would work at the second layer of hell known as Microsoft. Third layer of hell is probably Dell or Oracle.

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I think your layers of hell are very skewed by recent human history and may need a bit of a healthy reality check. In almost all of human existence, working at Microsoft or Oracle and sitting in a cushy chair coding and being paid ungodly amounts of money would be considered eternal paradise.

“You are your ancestors’ wildest dreams.”

I'm not sure it's the coding we get paid for. It's tolerating everything else around it.

You're being paid to build the mechanisms of power projection, and to completely divest yourself from the question of how the fruits of your labor are then applied.

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