[owl57]

I could see the difference with "commodity" employees, and that sucks, but what's the big difference if we are talking about programmers? The company is obviously very interested to make us not want to leave, and also probably interested that we feel like caring about the product.

[brassattax]

Possibly true when the programmers are building the company's product. I happen to work for a company where all of IT is a cost center.

[wonderwonder]

I think if that was true then large raises would be the norm as they know programmers often leave every couple years for a 20+ % raise.